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Pumpkin Parade marks end of 62nd annual Sycamore Pumpkin Festival

5-day festival comes to end on a chilly Sunday as parade-goers lined downtown streets to enjoy a final fall day of festivities

October 30, 2023 at 5:45 am CDT

Fischer Frueh, 3, of Geneva sits on his dad’s shoulders and shakes hands with a man on stilts during the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival parade held on Sunday Oct. 29, 2023, in downtown Sycamore. — Fischer Frueh, 3, of Geneva sits on his dad’s shoulders and shakes hands with a man on stilts during the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival parade held on Sunday Oct. 29, 2023, in downtown Sycamore. (David Toney for Shaw Local/David Toney)

By Shaw Local News Network

SYCAMORE – Crowds lined the streets in downtown Sycamore on a chilly Sunday afternoon to watch the Pumpkin Parade, which marked the official end of the five-day 2023 Sycamore Pumpkin Festival.

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Fischer Frueh, 3, of Geneva sits on his dad’s shoulders and shakes hands with a man on stilts during the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival parade held on Sunday Oct. 29, 2023, in downtown Sycamore. (David Toney for Shaw Local/David Toney)

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