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Welcome

Welcome to the Warren County Prime Beef Festival. Our carnival is held each year the Wednesday through Saturday following Labor Day. The Princess Pageant event preceeds this on the prior Saturday night as does the Festival Swine show on the Tuesday night before our official Wednesday  5 PM kick-off Parade. See the Calendar section for a full listing of events, dates and times.

 

2010
Pageant: September 4th
Carnival: September 8-11th

 

for information and tourism support contact the

Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce

  • VIP License Plate

    • Special Event Plates
      Special Event Plates
     
    Show your support of our Festival by purchasing Warren County Prime Beef Festival Special Event Plates!
     
    Bring your current auto or pickup Illinois license registration card and vehicle owner's drivers license to the Monmouth Chamber of Commerce on the Square to purchase your plates now. Just $25 shows your support.
     

  • Theme

    The 2010 Warren County Prime Beef Festival theme is:

    Show us your Royalty
    Warren County

     

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    Events: (Adobe PDF documents) 
    • Parade Entry Form 
    • Industrial Tent Contract
     

     

  • Stage Entertainment

    Payup Band, TeJai's Country Music and The Brooks Brothers Band will appear on stage @ PBF 2010. Along with the animal scrambles plenty of parking and access to the festival grounds this is all FREE to the public...

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  • Strongman

    Are you the Strongest Man in Warren County?

     

    Well George Ewalt and Adam Repp are the undisputed Strongest Man and Fire Fighter in Warren County. And that fact will remain so until one of you attempt to topple them come next Festival.

     

    See you again Friday September 10th at 7 PM for the 2nd Annual Harold Taylor Memorial Prime Beef Festival Challenge.

     

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  • Backyard BBQ Cook-Off

    Thank you to all the 2010 businesses, contestants and past winners to appear in the 2010 Stan Olson Memorial Beef Cookoff Tent:

     

    Wednesday 6:30 PM - County Market serving FREE samples

    Thursday 6:30 PM- Battle of the Banks Burger cook-off challenge

    Friday 6:30 PM - 2009 Cook-Off Winners serving FREE samples

     Feature Event:

    Saturday 1:00 PM - 1st Annual Stan Olson Memorial Beef Cook-Off  

    more details >

  • Webcam

    PBF 2010 Live Cam Coverage

    With our 1-man-war here covering TWO locations 13 miles apart and churning out an all new Video Auction livestock sale format with almost no production time, this should be fun? Help is encourage! New this year will be several Internet Based Video Camera feeds.

     

    PBF live > 

     

    Also check out www.MyPBF.com for your mobile phone so you too can be one place and watch another.