Oconee Fall Festival
Oconee Family Fall Festival, Sacred Heart Church, established 1994

33rd Annual · Est. 1994

Oconee FamilyFall Festival

Sacred Heart Church — Oconee, Illinois

Three Sundays of pumpkins, kettle corn, hay rides and pork ribeye sandwiches in a farm town of a few hundred people. Everything on the grounds is run by the parish, and every dollar stays here.

27Sunday
September11 AM – 4 PM
4Sunday
October11 AM – 4 PM
11Sunday
October11 AM – 4 PM

Walnut St & N 2nd St · Oconee, IL 62553 · Directions

On the grounds

Something to do all afternoon

Children playing in the corn pit

The Corn Pit

You will not get them out of it. A pit of loose shelled corn under the shelter, buckets and scoops, and corn in their shoes for a week afterward. Free.

A wagon full of families waving on the hay ride

Hay Rides

Climb up on the bales and go out around the cornfield and back. Grandpa rides too. Nothing about it has changed since 1994, and nobody wants it to.

Goats and a sheep in a straw-bedded pen

The Animal Barn

Goats and sheep bedded down in fresh straw, long since used to visitors. A good spot to catch your breath while the kids say hello.

Rows of pumpkins set out on straw

Pumpkins & Mums

Pumpkins from pie-sized to two-handed, gourds in white and green, mums in every color the greenhouse had. Almost nobody leaves empty-handed.

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The food

Come hungry

Five stands, all of them run by parish volunteers in the same spots they have used for years. Nothing is catered and nothing is frozen.

Five stands
  • The Food StandPork ribeye sandwiches, pulled pork, BBQ nachos and baked potatoes, funnel cakes
  • The Apple ShackCider, cider slushees, caramel apples and apple bowls
  • Ribbon FriesOne potato, cut to order and loaded with toppings
  • Kettle CornPopped in the kettle out front and bagged warm
  • Ice CreamFresh-churned on the grounds, all afternoon
Parish volunteers at the stand, a boy holding a plate of ribbon fries, a cider slushee and bags of kettle corn

See the full food page →

The Jack-O-Pot

$5,100 in cash. 12 chances to win.

One drawing before the festival opens and eleven more across the three Sundays, finishing with three $1,000 winners on October 11. Every ticket stays in the drum for all twelve.

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Drawing dates & where to buy

Also drawn this fall

The hand-quilted raffle

Quilted by the hands of the ladies and friends of the parish, the way it has been done here for decades. Drawn Sunday, November 8, over coffee and donuts.

See the prizes