2025 Parade of Lights
6:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 22, 2025
The Festival of Lights annual Parade of Lights features 40 floats shaped by bright, colorful LED lights, including:
- 70-foot long float of the famous Clydesdale horse team pulling a delivery wagon
- 95-foot-long smoke-spewing Chinese dragon
- Chopper motorcycle
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- The Duck and Ducklings
- 160-foot long Steam Engine Train
- The USS East Peoria of Star Trek fame, back for the first time in three years
Spectators can spread out along the approximately two-mile route which is mostly along East Washington Street and Taylor Street.
Help Us Light the Parade Route
This year spectators can help light the parade route with special free large foam light sticks. The sticks feature three functions for the multi-colored lights inside them. Festival organizers will distribute them along the route shortly before the parade begins, and they will also be available at the Mix 106.9 tent in front of East Peoria Community High School.
Show Us Your Parade Photos!
We want to see your parade photos on Facebook and Instagram! Tag Folepi!
Starting Time Change
Please note that this year's parade will start at 6:30 p.m. This is due to the live broadcast of the Parade of Lights on WMBD-TV and CBS network rules regarding the airing of college football games.
Parade Music
The East Peoria Festival of Lights is excited to announce that Mix 106.9 will be the official Parade of Lights music provider! We will have speakers on floats tuned to Mix 106.9 and the station will play commerical free holiday music during the parade. You can listen outside along the parade route or inside your vehicle on the radio!
Parade Live TV Broadcast and Livestream
Those who love a parade will have the option from the comfort of home to watch the Parade of Lights broadcast LIVE at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, November 22 exclusively on WMBD-TV!
You can also view the parade livestream on CIPROUD.com. For our Facebook fans, you can also view the CIPROUD.com livestream on our East Peoria Festival of Lights Facebook page.
Parade Route & Map
Download the Parade Route Map (PDF)
The 41st Annual Parade of Lights is set to be held on November 22nd at 6:30 p.m.
The parade will start at the intersection of East Washington Street and Dolans Lane, where Auto Zone is located. It will continue along Washington Street, turning left at the intersection with Camp Street.
The floats will then turn right from Washington onto Taylor Street at Gerber Collision and Glass, and continue along Taylor in front of Central Junior High School, ending at Taylor Street and Springfield Road at the U.S. Post Office.
The parade route is approximately two miles long.