Celebrate Our Nation At Kenosha’s Lakefront Always a wonderful day for the city, the 2016 Kenosha Civic Veterans’ Parade will be held on Sunday, July 3rd. The Kenosha Civic Veterans’ Parade has been entertaining thousands of people for more than 40 years with award-winning marching bands, floats, unique performance groups and more. The parade steps off at 1 p.m. and has a theme of “A Star Spangled Celebration.” The parade begins at 1 p.m. at 22nd Avenue and 63rd St., travels north to 60th Street before heading east to Library Park, rounds the south end of the park to Sixth Avenue and travels north to 50th Street. For more parade information, visit www.kenoshaevents.com. After enjoying the parade, stroll down to our beautiful lakefront and enjoy Celebrate America, already in progress. This year, the festivities kick off at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 2nd, with great entertainment on the main stage. Presented by the City of...

Join us for the Pier Pups dock jumping at Celebrate America July 3rd and 4th.  The time slots for the dog jumps are listed below: Sunday, July 3rd- 3:30 p.m.  4:30 p.m.  5:30 p.m.  6:30 p.m. Monday, July 4th- 2:00 p.m.  3:30 p.m.  5:00 p.m.  6:30 p.m. CLICK HERE FOR PIER PUPS REGISTRATION FORM

It's A Feeding Frenzy! It's Back... The Celebrate America eating competition returns with great prizes for the biggest, fastest eaters. On July 4th the sponsoring restaurants include: 2:30 p.m. Big Matt's BBQ Rib Contest 3:30 p.m. Savino's Brick Oven Pizza Contest 4:30 p.m. Festival Foods Pie Contest For a chance to compete, please print the application below and bring it to the Happenings tent on the corner of 56th St. & 24th Ave. 1 hour before the event start time CLICK HERE FOR EATING COMPETITION APPLICATION!