Frankfort Fireworks, Event Guide For 2025

FRANKFORT, IL — Independence Day falls on a Friday in 2025, kicking off a star-spangled three-day weekend packed with fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun in and around Frankfort.

To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going on in Frankfort and the surrounding areas.

July 4 Festivities For 2025

July 3: MOKENA: The Village of Mokena and the Mokena Community Park District invites the community to the expanded July 3 festival at Main Park, 10925 W. LaPorte Rd.

Free kids games and inflatables offered from 4 to 6:30 p.m., and a Magic show at 6:30 p.m.The entertainment will kick off at 5 p.m. with the Encore Concert Band. The Encore Concert Band are comprised of community members who enjoy playing quality orchestra music together, fostering a greater appreciation for music and providing entertainment at the highest level.

Band "28 Days" takes the stage at 7:30.

Food trucks include Hawaiian Food Truck Chicago, Kona Ice, Smokin' Z BBQ, TCBY, Joey's Red Hots, Avocado Theory, Ricobene's on 26th Street, Nothing Bundt Cake, Waffle Hero, Martino's Mobile Pizza, ParTea Boba and Catering, and Cousins Maine Lobster.

Fireworks at 9:30.

July 3: LEMONT: Event begins at 4 p.m. at Centennial Park.

4 p.m., DJ, food vendors, beer booth and Kid's Zone opens6 p.m., The Tim Gleason Band9:30 p.m., fireworks

July 3: LOCKPORT: The City of Lockport and the Lockport Township Park District will host the annual fireworks show on July 3 at dusk at Dellwood Park.

July 3: ROMEOVILLE: The Village will hold three shows simultaneously to allow residents to view the shows from their neighborhoods. Fireworks shows will be based from Volunteer Park, Lukancic Middle School and Discovery Park.

Choreographed music will be available on Start 96.7 FM.

Attendance at the three sites are restricted. If you can't see fireworks from your neighborhood, the parking lots at Village Hall will be open for fireworks viewing, but there will not be any activities at Village Hall that evening.

Fireworks will begin at 9:30 p.m.

July 4: FRANKFORT: Park will open at 7 p.m. at Main Park, 200 S. Locust St.
DJ will begin at 7:30 p.m., and fireworks will start around 9:15 p.m.
The firework display is sponsored by the Village of Frankfort, Frankfort Firefighters Foundation and Frankfort Firefighters Local 4338.

July 4: BOLINGBROOK: Grounds open at 3 p.m. at the Bolingbrook Golf Club. Celebrating the Village of Bolingbrook's 60th anniversary. Fireworks, food, live entertainment, Kids Zone, putting contest and more.

Cash parking is available in the lawn across from the club (benefiting the Bolingbrook Lions Club). The event has free admission and free live entertainment. There is free parking at Eichelberger Elementary School, John F. Kennedy Middle School, Plainfield East High School; shuttles begin at 6 p.m.

Fireworks at dusk.

July 4: NEW LENOX: Don't miss a performance by Billy Gray Music at the Village Commons as they take the stage from 6 to 8 pm. Following Billy Gray Music will be the Joliet American Legion Band to lead into the fireworks display with patriotic tunes. The fireworks display will take place at dusk (approximately 9:15 pm).

Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for sale from the concession stand courtesy of the New Lenox Community Park District. Additionally, two food trucks will be on site:

• Drew's Dogs
• Los Razo's Mexican Grill

For more information, see the Village's website.

Channahon

• Sundance at Independence Day Celebration in Channahon, Ronald D. Lehman Community Park, 23304 W. McClintock Road

Plainfield

• Plainfield Food Truck Festival and Fourth of July Fireworks, Gregory B. Bott Community Park, 24550 W. Renwick Road

Patch has rounded up the biggest July 4 fireworks displays and other events happening in Illinois in celebration of Independence Day. Click here to see our full Illinois list.

Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. In that document, the 13 original colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.

During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.

It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies —New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — to adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The first annual commemoration of the nation’s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.

Today, Americans celebrate with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.