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Ribberfest food and events fill Illinois weekend schedule
Ribberfest continues with 15 plus vendors offering shrimp, funnel cakes, biscuits and gravy, breakfast items, shaved tenderloin, burgers, fries, chop suey, bacon wrapped hot dogs, snow cones and more. Free entertainment spans April 22 23 with Honey Roy Duo and Band, Dennis Johnson Alex Haws and Mad Women. Saturday features the Illinois State Championship Cornhole Tournament, art at Wabash County Museum, a Cannonball Downhill Derby and Thunder on the Hilltop motorcycle show, plus a Wine Garden. Next year’s festival is set for April 28 29. Marriage licenses issued April 8 for Christopher Elton Moore Amanda Jo Wagner. Various court records list guilty verdicts and dispositions including domestic battery, unlawful use of weapon, possession drug paraphernalia and meth with fines and conditional discharges.