Normal Corn Festival 2025. The event is divided into child, youth, and adult categories, and participants compete to see who can peel corn the fastest. The festival includes performances from gammi phi, cirquemania and iron spirit pro wrestling, plus all the maddox sweet corn you can eat and the typical circus fare.

Originally known as the “sweet corn blues festival,” the event was rebranded in 2019 to emphasize the area’s deep and intertwined history with corn farming and the circus. Over 50,000 ears of fresh sweet corn, sidewalk sales, arts, crafts, and flea market vendors await you on the streets of uptown!