The Kewanee Hog Day Stampede and Hog Jog courses are officially opened and marked. The Hog Day Stampede Founder Nelson Lay and his assistant, Jay Cone’, marked the course for the forty-seventh time last week.

The one-mile Hog Jog starts in the 100 block of South Chestnut with the four-mile course beginning in the 200 block. The finish line is located in front of the Kewanee YMCA.

This year the US Marine Corp Band members will be taking part in the four-mile run prior to their appearance in the Hog Days Parade later that day. You can run with “The Few. The Proud. The Marines.”

Runners and walkers are encouraged to enter either the one- or four-mile event. Entry forms are available at Breedlove’s Sporting Goods locations and the Kewanee Chamber of Commerce office.
Online registration is encouraged and can be completed through www.getmeregistered.com/hogdaystampede. Forms can also be downloaded at www.kewanee-il.com and click on the Hog Day Stampede tab.

The 2023 Hog Day Stampede is sponsored by the Kewanee Chamber of Commerce and presented by Breedlove’s Sporting Goods, Galva-Kewanee-Stark County Physical Therapy & Rehab Specialists, Community State Bank and OSF Healthcare St. Luke Medical Center.

The four-mile event starts at 8 a.m. sharp on Saturday, September 2 with the one-mile slated for 9:45 a.m. The quarter-mile kids fun run for ages 7 and under begins at 9:30 with free T-shirts provided by The State Bank of Toulon to the first 300 registered children by August 21.

**Due to product availability, we will not be able to offer shirts to registrants after Wednesday, August 30. Please sign up before this date to receive t-shirts for the Hog Days Stampede. We apologize for this inconvenience.

For more information call the Kewanee Chamber of Commerce office at (309) 852-2175.