Soul Asylum To Headline RomeoFest In Event's Summer Return

ROMEOVILLE, IL — When Romeofest, the village’s popular summer festival, takes place later this year, a popular musical attraction will take the event “up a notch” officials announced on Friday.

Grammy Award-winning Soul Asylum will headline the four-day event, which returns this year and will be held Aug. 4-7. Soul Asylum is scheduled to take the stage on Saturday, Aug. 6, when the festival will also host a laser light show, village officials announced.

We are very excited to have Soul Asylum headlining Saturday night’s entertainment at RomeoFest,” Romeoville Mayor John Noak said in a statement on Friday.” “With this year’s return, we thought it only right to really take it up a notch and we’re not going to stop there.

Noak said that the Romeoville Parks and Recreation Department is working to "gear up" for this year’s event season and said that the village plans to announce more surprises in the coming weeks.

Soul Asylum made its debut in 1981 in Minneapolis and won the alternative rock band won a Grammy in 1993 when “Runaway Train” won the award for best rock song.

The return of RomeoFest is part of a slate of summer events that are scheduled to again take place this summer. Village officials said that one of the most unique fireworks displays held in the Chicago suburbs will take place on July 3. The Romeoville display includes three simultaneous displays being shot off at once from three various locations.

The fireworks display has been created after neighboring communities canceled their fireworks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The multi-location display allowed the fireworks to be seen by a larger area of residents.

Village officials said that the return to a full slate of events will provide variety and “something fun for everyone.”