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Celebrate the holiday season with an after-dark parade featuring hundreds of thousands of lights.
Celebrate the holiday season with an after-dark parade featuring hundreds of thousands of lights. Delighting the young and the young-at-heart since l990, this wintertime celebration draws participants and onlookers from many surrounding communities. Crowds line up along Illinois Avenue to see dancers, marching bands and uniquely themed and lighted floats that bedazzle the senses.
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Dec 04, 2021
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Illinois Avenue
Carbondale IL 62901 - Phone: (618) 529-4451
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Southern Illinois University Homecoming
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