Events

What’s going on? In the Great Rivers & Routes region, it’s celebrating local brews with Craft Beer Week. Or turning your eyes to the skies for Eagle Watching. Taking a cruise along one of the region’s three great rivers. Sitting back and enjoying great outdoor concerts and live music.

And those are just a few of the countless events that fill up the calendar in the Great Rivers & Routes region. Whatever piques your interest, there’s an event for it.

Want to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a few hundred of your best Irish (or Irish for the day) friends? We do that.

Looking to get spooked at a haunted house – that’s actually haunted? We do that.

Seeking the adrenaline rush of watching a rider try to stay on the back of a bucking bull for eight seconds? We do that.

See what else you can do by browsing the listing of events. See you soon!

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Oct 1st, 2026 to Dec 31st, 2026

Route 66 Centennial Selfies
The City of Collinsville is celebrating the Route 66 Centennial. Join in this special event as part of the celebration! Find the Oversized Route 66 Sign at any of its five locations…
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Oct 1st, 2026 to Jul 8th, 2027

1926 at West End Service Station
We are turning the calendar back and honoring the birth of the Mother Road, Route 66, in 1926. This year marked the middle of the "Roaring Twenties" and "The Jazz Age" and…
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Oct 1st, 2026

Javapalooza 2026
Take your sweet time savoring the smells, reveling in the flavors and immersing yourself in the rich and vibrant coffee culture of the Great Rivers & Routes region during Javapalooza 2026, coming…
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Oct 1st, 2026

Remembering Col. Benjamin Stephenson
Throughout the month of October, the 1820 Col. Benjamin Stephenson House will be in mourning in honor of Col. Stephenson who is credited with leading Illinois into U.S. statehood. Special Mourning Tours…
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Oct 2nd, 2026

Living History Days
History comes to life in Edwardsville during the annual Living History Days Festival Oct. 2-4. Meet Hooper Warren, an Edwardsville newspaper editor and abolitionist or Dolley Madison, the wife of America's…
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Oct 2nd, 2026

Great Godfrey Maze 2026
This year's Great Godfrey Maze will open now through Nov. 1! The theme for 2026 is the characters from the Inside Out animated films - weave your way through the design and…
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Oct 2nd, 2026

Haunted School at the Pink Elephant
The ghosts come out to play at a historically haunted school along Route 66 in southwest Illinois. For 75 years, this school ran normally. Then something happened that caused it to close…
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