A variety of traditional craft demonstrations, live-music performances, food options, vendors, hands-on children's activities, and much more will be enjoyed in Bishop Hill, Illinois, during the 2025 agriculture-days celebration Jordbruksdagarna (pronounced "yord-brooks-dah-ga-na"), the September 27 and 28 event that will also boast a petting zoo, a book signing, a bake sale, and Swedish music in the Village Park gazebo.

Described by Time Out New York as a play that “provides a pleasurable ripple of fear down one's spine and an uncomfortable lurch in the pit of one's stomach,” the intimate chiller The Woman in Black enjoys a spooky-season run at Geneseo's Richmond Hill Barn Theatre, its October 2 through 12 engagement inviting audiences to witness an evocative stage tale that The Daily Mail called “a truly nerve-shredding experience.”

Continuing 2025 garden-cinema series with a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner and one of the most celebrated international titles of all time, Federico Fellini's 1960 masterowkr La Dolce Vita enjoys an outdoor screening at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox on September 26, its numerous examples of cultural impact including its news-photographer character Paparazzo, who became the origin of the word paparazzi.

Treating patrons to a free screening celebrating a beloved area figure, Fourth Wall Films' Kelly and Tammy Rundle will host a September 30 showing of A Bridge Too Far From Hero Street: William Sandoval's Story at the Davenport Public Library's Fairmount Street Branch, this moving, historical, locally themed doc honoring the life and experiences of a true war hero from Silvis, Illinois.