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Peggy Notebaert Museum - 10:00 AM
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Ice Festival Downtown Downers Grove
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Get out of the house for a weekend of fun, shopping and dining for all ages! The Annual Downtown Downers Grove Ice Festival will return on February 4-6, 2022. The nearly 60 precarved sculptures sponsored by local businesses and organizations and a Downers Grove family, will be delivered on Friday morning. Live carving demonstrations will take place Saturday and Sunday, 11am-3pm and the sculptures will be up all weekend, weather permitting.
Enjoy nearly 50 pre-carved ice sculptures that will line the streets of Downtown Downers Grove. Keep your eye out for beautiful sculptures of a Olympic Rings, flamingo, bowling pins, rocket ship, lighthouse, Super Bowl Trophy and many more intriguing ice sculptures. Make sure to stop by and take a picture in the Kissing Booth on Main and then head to Curtiss Street for a picture in the I Love Downtown Downers Grove Picture Frame on Curtiss. Don't forget to sit on the ice bench under the light arch, just south of 5150 Main Street.
You will have the opportunity to watch carvers demonstrate their art in person Saturday & Sunday with live ice carving demonstrations from 11am-3pm at the Main Street Train Station.
While enjoying the Ice Fest makes sure to stop in the boutiques and restaurants will enjoying the ice art. There are many shopping & dining specials throughout the downtown. Map of the sculptures can be found here. http://www.downtowndg.org