Events Calendar

The Macomb Farmers Market is dedicated to providing an opportunity for local farmers, food producers, artisans and crafters to sell directly to the consumer in a venue that builds community and supports the development of entrepreneurs.

The Macomb Farmer market is in Chandler Park and Downtown Macomb IL every Saturday (starting from May 3rd to October 18th) and Thursdays (Starting May 29 to October 16th.

Keokuk Farmer's Market has everything! It features local produce, baked goods, jewelry, art, photography, knitted accessories - AND it helps the community!

The Keokuk Farmers Market is held every Saturday from May through September at the River City Mall from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Location: River City Mall 300 Main Street Keokuk, IA 52632

How to get to Stony Hills Nature Preserve? Simply perform an internet search and click on google map directions.

Choose one or both 'bio blitz blocks' to attend for a 90-minute session led by volunteers on 1 of 4 topics: Birds, tree, Prairie, or insects.

Block 1: 8am - 9:30am
Block 2: 10am-11:30am

Please note that if you type in an address, it may send you to the opposite side of the preserve as the main event so call our office ahead of time if you'd like to receive some direction! 309-833-4747

The Mount Sterling Farmers Market began in 2017 as a grassroots effort led by community members with the goal of promoting local food access, small businesses, and community gathering-laying the foundation for the market we know today.

Mount Sterling IL Farmers Market will be held on every Saturday 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM from June 7th to September 27th Uptown on Main street

A Very Vintage Market is a one day extravaganza in beautiful, historic Downtown Burlington on July 19, 2025 from 9 AM - 4 PM, inspired by the love of vintage and handmade goods. This event features antique and vintage décor, repurposed, re-imagined, or up-cycled items, handcrafted goods, architectural salvage, primitive and farmhouse accents, as well as local eats.

Stop by our Art Studio to design a hot air balloon
Free with admission

Our monthly lab is the perfect opportunity for young artists who want to explore the world of ceramics! This program offers makers the chance to create monthly projects or to simply follow their own creative inspiration through clay. Across the sessions, we’ll explore a range of hand building techniques, exciting surface design processes, wheel throwing opportunities, and hands-on glazing to create amazing projects.
Our focus throughout the winter/spring labs will emphasize personal creativity, collaborating with nature, working in a series, and an introduction to alternative surface techniques. Come join us and make lasting memories and enjoy hands-on experiences in clay!

Session fee includes clay, glazes, use of tools and brushes, bisque and glaze kiln firings. Students are encouraged to return to the studio to glaze their work. Pre-registration is required and spaces are limited. Please register no later than the day before each session. See you in the studio!
Fee per session: $28.00 for Macomb Park District Residents, $37.00 for Non-Residents
Register at tinyurl.com/mpdregister/ or call 309-833-4562.

There will be a concert featuring "Stone Hill Band" at the Rand Park Pavilion. The event will be on Saturday July 19th at 7:00 PM. Food trucks will be on site one hour prior to the concerts start time. For more information go to randparkpavilion.com.

The Hancock County Historical Society is hosting a program for its quarterly July meeting on July 19th starting at 7:00 PM. The program will be held at the Carthage Community Center on 301st East Main Street in Carthage Illinois

This program, by well-known Illinois historian John Hallwas, will provide insights about, and appreciation for, life in early Hancock County--and it will focus on some local poets who reflected the issues and struggles of nineteenth-century residents. Three authors who produced some poems that are still interesting for us today will be emphasized: Thomas Gregg, the early newspaperman and historian who resided in Carthage, Warsaw, Plymouth, and Hamilton; Eliza Snow, a noted Mormon woman who lived at Nauvoo during the turbulent years of local conflict and then participated in the exodus to Utah; and John Hay, the famous Secretary of State and Lincoln biographer who had been raised in Warsaw, and whose ballads about rural folks became nationally famous.

Hallwas has written thirty books, several plays, and hundreds of articles about Illinois history and literature--including a biography of Thomas Gregg and articles about Eliza Snow and John Hay. Retired from Western Illinois University, he lives in Macomb and has interacted with a variety of western Illinois historians over the past fifty years, including several from Hancock County.

This program is a grant sponsored by the Two Rivers Arts Council

Join our monthly third Sunday or Wednesday work days at Elwood Wildlife Preserve! Led entirely by volunteers, these work days aim to improve wildlife habitat.

If you want to contact one of the lead volunteers, you can reach out to Ed Coleman at colemane296@gmail.com or John Meyers at 7737meyers@gmail.com.