You have 96 hours.  Friday, August 31st through Monday, September 3rd.  Your assignment?  Enjoy the last holiday weekend of summer at our 59th annual Kewanee Hog Days.

It all begins with the World's Largest Outdoor Pork Barbecue, serving over 30 thousand!  There are concessions and carnival, The Hog Days Stampede and Fitness Run, disc golf and regular golf tournaments, garden tractor pull, flea market and craft show, mud volleyball, 3 queen pageants, co-ed softball, Model T and Model A Rally, free stage shows all weekend long, a cooking contest (The Showdown!), a retro car show, a 64 mile bike ride, fly-in breakfast and the original event that started it all...a barrow show!   

Start clicking the links on the right-hand side of this and every page to get all the details of our annual Labor Day weekend festival that has never missed a year since 1954!

You can come for a day.  You can come for the weekend.  We promise to do our best to make your time here full with fun, food and family-friendly things to do.  Kewanee Hog Days...Chop Til You Drop!

Oh and by the way, a BIG thank you to Tim Nelson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who won our "create a tagline" contest with his Chop Til You Drop idea for 2012!

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