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“It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!”

The Festival of Lights 33rd Annual Parade of Lights will cover three miles of Washington Street starting on one side of the city and ending just past the downtown EP area.

The parade covers three miles of Washington Street starting on one side of the city and ending just past downtown featuring floats shaped entirely from LED lights including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the chopper motorcycle, a 70-foot long float of the famous Clydesdale horse team pulling a delivery wagon, Frosty the Snowman, the Starship Enterprise illuminated with 48,000 lights, and the 95-foot-long smoke-spewing China Dragon!

The 33rd Annual Festival of Lights Parade will take place on Saturday, November 18, 2017 in Downtown East Peoria, IL beginning at 5:45pm.

For more information including a map of the parade route, visit www.cityofeastpeoria.com/festival-of-lights.