Oswego Fireworks, Event Guide For 2025

OSWEGO, 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 Oswego.

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.

This is what is planned in Oswego:

Oswego Independence Day Fireworks

• Where: Prairie Point Community Park, 4120 Plainfield Road
• When: 8-10 p.m. July 4. Rain day is set for July 5.

Nearby displays

If you're looking for other fireworks shows nearby:

Aurora

• Fourth of July Fireworks, DJ and Food Trucks, McCullough Park, 150 W. Illinois Ave., and Aurora Transportation Center, 233 N. Broadway

Joliet

• July 4 Fireworks in Joliet, Busey Bank Field at Joliet Memorial Stadium, 3000 West Jefferson Street

Plainfield

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

Yorkville

• July 4 Parade, starting at Yorkville High School
• Fourth of July Fireworks, near Route 47 and Countryside Parkway

History of Independence Day

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.