Champaign-Urbana Events Calendar — Things to Do in Champaign County, IL
Chambana Events is the local calendar for things to do in Champaign, Urbana,
Savoy, and the rest of Champaign County, IL — live music and concerts, festivals,
food and drink, arts and culture, family activities, sports, and community
gatherings, plus neighborhood garage and estate sales.
Looking for Champaign events today, tonight, or this weekend? Browse upcoming
concerts, festivals, family activities, and things to do across Champaign-Urbana,
updated daily — or find a nearby garage, yard, or estate sale.
Events today & tonight in Champaign-Urbana ·
Things to do this weekend
Upcoming Events in Champaign-Urbana
- FriendShop Bookstore Open — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM, FriendShop Bookstore, Champaign, IL. Visit the Library’s FriendShop Bookstore on the lower level, open Wednesday–Sunday from 1–4 pm.
Bargain books & more! The Friend Shop Bookstore offers more than 20,000 nearly new books, CDs, and mov
- The Devil You Know: A Halloween Dance Party — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM, Gallery Art Bar, 119 W Main St., Urbana, IL, 61801. DJ Renee and all the spooky visuals will transport you. Expect to dance all night to the biggest bangers from artists like: Rihanna, Chief Keefe, Drake, Megan the Stallion, Beyonce', Doechi, Trim, Flo
- Katie Khau Local Art Exhibit — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM, The Scratching Post Cat and Board Game Cafe, 114 E. University Ave., Champaign, IL, 61820. Walk through The Scratching Post Cafe and enjoy a collection of local art by Katie Khau. No admission fee to view the art on the cafe side. Pieces will be available for sale. If you'd like to visit th
- The Op Games Giveaway - Featuring Cats Knocking Things Off Ledges! — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM, The Scratching Post Cat and Board Game Cafe, 114 E. University Ave., Champaign, IL, 61820. The Scratching Post is celebrating the newly released Cats Knocking Things Off Ledges board game with a huge game giveaway sponsored by The Op Games! Game passes are free all day! Try out any of our 5
- Trick or Treat at Autumn Fields Savoy — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM, Autumn Fields Savoy, 65 Airport Rd, Savoy, IL. Saturday, October 30th, 2026Starts at 2pmTrick or Treat
Autumn Fields Savoy
- Teen Lounge — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM, Main Library, The Studio, Champaign, IL. Looking for something exciting to do after school? Middle and high school students can stop by the library for activities and fun.
Children's Services | 217-403-2000
- Teen Climbing Hours — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM, Horizon Climbing, 1914 Round Barn Rd. Suite A, Champaign, IL, 61821. Does your teen need an after-school activity? Horizon Climbing offers discounted entry for middle/high schoolers on weekdays from 3-5:30 p.m. Climbing passes during this time are only $10 for middle/h
- Halloween Intrasquad - Illini Women's Gymnastics — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM, Kenney Gym, 1406 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL, 61801. Come out to Kenney Gym for the University of Illinois Women's Gymnastics Halloween Intrasquad! Admission is FREE!
Also, make sure you wear a costume!
- Community Candy Crawl — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM, Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, 15588 History Lane, Petersburg, IL. For the first time, they are opening the historic village up for a safe, family-friendly trick-or-treating event!
Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site is proud to host the "Community Candy Crawl"
- Friday Night Hot Dogs & Goats — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM, Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery, 4410 N Lincoln Ave., Champaign, IL, 61822. Free DIY Hot Dog Station
Head to the farm every Friday to hang out around the fire for hot dogs and visit with the goats!
Fridays just got a lot more fun
Theyre lighting the fire pit every Friday fro
- Studio @ Main | Drop-in — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM, Main Library, Champaign, IL. Want to create something special? Drop in during open hours, 5–8 pm, to explore The Studio! Library staff will be available to answer your questions.
The Studio at the Library is an 8,000 sq. ft. sp
- Open Gym Volleyball — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM, Health & Wellness Center, 2002 E. Washington, Urbana. Ages 15+
Bring your enthusiasm and equipment to the Health & Wellness Center on Friday evenings for some volleyball action! Practice for your upcoming game with your team or just come out solo and j
- Jay Ferguson Trio — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM, Rose Bowl Tavern, 106 N. Race St., Urbana, IL, 61801. Jazz Happy Hour at The Rose Bowl Tavern (Every Wednesday and Friday) features a rotating cast of the best local and regional musicians performing a diverse array of jazz styles and flavors. 5 - 7pm, s
- Trunk or Treat | Carriage Crossing of Champaign — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM, Carriage Crossing Assisted Living, 1701 Congressional Way, Champaign, IL. Join in for a free Trunk or Treat event! 5-7 p.m. on October 30th. Rain or shine.
- Y on the Fly | Trunk or Treat — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM, Y on the Fly, 2422 W. Springfield Ave, Champaign, IL. Stop by the Y On The Fly location on Halloween from 5-6p for a Trunk or Treat!
- Farm Tour & Cheese Tasting — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM, Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery, 4410 N. Lincoln Ave., Champaign, IL, 61822. Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery opened in 2004 as Illinois' first farmstead creamery, built on the idea that the best cheese starts with well-cared-for goats and healthy land. Join us for a 30-minute g
- Farm to Table Dinner Party — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM, Common Ground Food Co-op, 300 S. Broadway Ave., Suite 166, Urbana, IL, 61801. Join Common Ground Co-op for their first Farm to Table Dinner Party! This is a community meal hosted by Ernesto Rodriguez of El Molcajete Sauces. Guests can expect a four course meal inspired by Oaxac
- FREE Haunted Library Walk-Through at Ogden Rose Public Library - Sensory-Friendly 5:30-6 — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM, Ogden Rose Public Library, 103 W. Main St., Ogden, IL. Come out on Friday, October 30, from 5:30–8:00 PM for a FREE Haunted Library Walk-Through!
Bring the whole family and explore the library as it transforms into a spooky Halloween experience!
5:30–6:
- Unbooked Kids — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM, Main Library, Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign, IL. School age kids and families can drop in Friday evenings for crafts and activities that inspire wonder and imagination!
- Illini Women's Soccer vs. Minnesota | Halloween Match — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM, Demirjian Park, 606 Saint Mary's Road, Champaign, IL, 61820. Cheer on the Fighting Illini Women's Soccer team as they take on Minnesota on Friday, October 30 at 6pm.
Halloween Match - Wear your best costume to Demirjian Park as Illinois Soccer celebrates Hallo
- Unbooked | In Concert — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM, Main Library, Robeson Pavilion Room A & B, Champaign, IL. Join us at the library on Fridays for an evening of fun!
Unbooked | Fall
Sep 4, Unbooked | Bingo
Sep 11, Unbooked | Trivia
Sep 18, Unbooked | Puzzle Piece
Sep 25, Unbooked | Card Games
Oct
- Trunk or Treat | Eden Supportive Living — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM, Eden Supportive Living, 222 N State Street, Champaign, IL, 61822. Stop by to get candy
October 30
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- Downtown Mahomet Trick or Treat — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM, Downtown Mahomet, Main Street, Mahomet, IL. Come to Downtown Mahomet for a great time of Trunk or Treat while area businesses set up downtown on Main St to pass out candy in their decorated cars.
- Crowley Pumpkin Glow — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM, Crowley Pumpkins, 435 CR 2500 N, Mahomet, IL. Take a drive past the Crowley Pumpkin Glow and enjoy seeing hundreds of carved pumpkins lighting up the night.
- Skate To Breathe (Ice Skating Fall Exhibition) — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM, Illinois Ice Arena, 406 E. Armory, CHAMPAIGN, IL. 🚨Mark your calendars!!!🚨 Skate2Breathe 2026 is officially here!
Please join us for our 4th annual Skate2Breathe exhibition where all proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis foundation! Tickets are avail
- Candleight: Coldplay vs. Imagine Dragons — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM, The Orpheum, 346 N Neil St., Champaign, IL, 61820. Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Central Illinois. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Co
- Haunts and Legends of UIUC — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St, Urbana, IL, 61801. The University dates back to 1867 and rumors of hauntings,scary stories, and oddities have been passed down from generation to generation.Whether you're a current UIUC student, an alumnus, or Champaig
- Comedian Robert Mac — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Yellow & Company, 1830 Patton Drive, Mahomet, IL, 61853. Robert Mac is the thinking-person's non-thinking person. He was the grand prize winner of Comedy Central's Laugh Riots, has been on NBC's Last Comic Standing, and has not one, not three, but TWO Dry B
- Fall Prairie Skies — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM, William M. Staerkel Planetarium, 2400 W. Bradley Ave., Champaign, IL, 61821. A live-narrated tour of the wonders of tonight's sky, accompanied by some of the legendary stories of the ancient sky. Find out what constellations and planets are visible tonight and how to find them
- Voting at the Library — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Main Library, Robeson Pavilion Room C, Champaign, IL. Champaign Public Library is a universal site for voting from October 19 - November 2, 2026. Voting will be in Robeson Pavilion (Room C) on the first floor of the Main branch.
Stop by to vote at the
- Spooky Spectacular Drag Show — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM, The Literary, 122 N. Neil St., Champaign, IL, 61820. Come join Pix E Styx and her friends for a spooky spectacular night! Costumes are encouraged, kid friendly and candy covered show!
Tickets $5
- Comedian Nick Cobb — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Yellow & Company, 1830 Patton Drive, Mahomet, IL, 61853. Robert Mac is the thinking-person's non-thinking person. He was the grand prize winner of Comedy Central's Laugh Riots, has been on NBC's Last Comic Standing, and has not one, not three, but TWO Dry B
- Halloween Booktacular Giveaway — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Main Library, Champaign, IL. Celebrate Halloween and autumn with a book treat!
Kids can choose one free book to take home and keep by visiting the Main Library's Children's Department or the Douglass Branch from October 26-31 d
- Straight No Chaser — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM, The Virginia Theatre, 203 W. Park Avenue, Champaign, IL, 61820. If the phrase "male a cappella group" conjures up and image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses... THINK AGAIN! Look up “holiday music” in
- The Play That Goes Wrong — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801. By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields J.W. Morrissette and Aaron Muñoz, directors The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, appearing through the generous support of special arts grants and a
- Harry & The Thief — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM, The Station Theatre, 223 N. Broadway Ave., Urbana, IL, 61801. Harry & The Thief is a genre-bending comedy that jumps between Harriet Tubman's fight for freedom in the 1850s and a present-day scheme to arm her with 21st-century weapons and rewrite history. Playwr
- Choirs & Illinois Wind Symphony — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801. Event information coming soon!
Foellinger Great Hall
Click here for tickets.
Standard - $10
Senior - $7
Student/Youth - $4
- Necrosis Haunted House — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM, Necrosis Haunted House, 1315 Enterprise Dr., Rantoul, IL, 61866. Necrosis was named a Top Ten Haunted House (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) by HauntedIllinois.com. We enter our eighth season of fear in 2026 and invite you to experience our best show yet.
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- Our Dear Dead Drug Lord Performance — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM, Armory Free Theatre, 505 E. Armory Ave., Champaign, Illinois IL. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord is a dark comedy that bounces between the ordinary and the uncomfortable in a representation of the experience of young women struggling to grow up in a patriarchal society. Fo
- Violent Universe — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM, William M. Staerkel Planetarium, 2400 W. Bradley Ave., Champaign, IL, 61821. The beauty of a starlit sky conceals the violent forces at work within our universe. From the upheaval of a giant star that explodes to release its material into space, to a future encounter between t
- Sunshine Daydream — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM, Rose Bowl Tavern, 106 N. Race St., Urbana, IL, 61801. Sunshine Daydream specializes in performing Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band music in a refreshing high energy, up-tempo style. They have played through at least 150 songs in the Grateful Dead repe
- Halloween Costume Party — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM, The Caffeine Rx, 107 N. Walnut St., Champaign, IL, 61820. Halloween Costume Party October 30th starting at 8PM with DJ Rollie. $10 at the door and half price drinks. Please RSVP.
- Astronomical Society at the University of Illinois Haunted Open House — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM, University of Illinois Campus Observatory, 901 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL. Because it is almost Halloween, this week from 8-11 PM on Friday, October 30th at the Observatory (901 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801), we will be holding a Haunted Open House! It's essentially a reg
- Bad Medicine — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM, The District Event Center, 3605 N. Cunningham Ave., Urbana, IL, 61802. Bad Medicine is taking over Friday night, and The District is turning it into a full Halloween party. They're dressing up and The District is adding Halloween specials and prizes for the costume conte
- King Falcon and The Forty Twos — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 9:00 PM, Cowboy Monkey, 6 Taylor St., Champaign, IL, 61820. King Falcon is flying back to Cowboy Monkey and this time they're bringing along co-headliner The Forty Twos for the occasion.
Tickets $12 plus fees | Ages 19+ show
- Friday Night Karaoke - Halloween Edition — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 9:00 PM, The Axe Bar, 114 S. Neil St., Champaign, IL, 61820. Come and sing with The Axe Bar! Dress up in your costume for a chance to win a prize!
- Halloweekend @ Amy — Friday, October 30, 2026 at 9:00 PM, Amy's Place, 120 N. First St., Champaign, IL, 61821. Halloween weekend at Amy's Place is creeping up, and honey, your costume deserves more than one outing!Thursday, October 29: The Gaybar DJs, 9 PM-2 AM! Costumes encouraged—come dance!Friday, October 3
- FriendShop Bookstore Open — Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM, FriendShop Bookstore, Champaign, IL. Visit the Library’s FriendShop Bookstore on the lower level, open Wednesday–Sunday from 1–4 pm.
Bargain books & more! The Friend Shop Bookstore offers more than 20,000 nearly new books, CDs, and mov
- Spooky Space — Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM, William M. Staerkel Planetarium, 2400 W. Bradley Ave., Champaign, IL, 61821. Would you like to meet the stars of Halloween? And their terrible counterparts in space? Here is a full dome show for the Halloween season.
Admission is $8 for adults or $7 for Parkland students, seni
- Library Trick or Treat — Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM, Urbana Free Library, 210 West Green Street, Urbana, IL, 61801. Start your trick or treating early at the Library! Grab a scavenger hunt sheet to help you search for all the treat stations. Enjoy a craft in the Children's Area, a glow-in-the-dark dance party in th
Upcoming Garage & Estate Sales in Champaign County
- Living Estate Sale 2208 Valley Brook Champaign (Garage Sale) — Thursday, October 29, 2026 – Saturday, October 31, 2026, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, ValleyBrook. Thursday 10/29 4pm to 7pm, Friday 10/30 8am to 2p, Saturday 10/31 is HALF PRICE ALL DAY 8am to 2pm!!
2208 Valley Brook Champaign, Illinois
Beautiful Home with Antiques, Jewelry, Furniture, Garden, F
- Estate Sale by Mayor (Garage Sale) — Thursday, October 29, 2026 – Saturday, October 31, 2026, 4:00 PM, Springhill Lane. Estate Sale by Mayor
2908 SpringHill Lane, C.
Thurs, Oct 29 from 4-7
Fri, Oct 30 from 9-2
Sat, Oct 31 from 9-2 1/2-price day
CASH ONLY
- Office Garage Sale (Garage Sale) — Saturday, October 31, 2026, 9:00 AM, 120 S Neil St. All items free - must be picked up during sale between 9 am and 12 pm
- Upscale Home & Fashion Sale (Garage Sale) — Saturday, October 31, 2026, 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM, 1509 Stonebluff Ct, Champaign, IL 61822. NOT YOUR ORDINARY GARAGE SALE! ✨
Huge selection of beautiful, quality items! Many are BRAND NEW or LIKE NEW!
🛍️ SHOPPING HIGHLIGHTS:
• Beautiful marble-top coffee table, end tables and buffet...
- SALE CANCELLED - Office Garage Sale - SALE CANCELLED (Garage Sale) — Saturday, October 31, 2026, 9:00 AM, 120 S Neil St. All items free - must be picked up during sale between 9 am and 12 pm
- Garage Sale on October 30 & 31 (Garage Sale) — Saturday, October 31, 2026, 1:00 PM, 816 Balboa Road near Faith United Methodist Church. Many cool jeans, shirts and shoes. Also many beautiful succulents!
Come and check it out at 816 Balboa Road in Champaign!