Groundhog Days 2025 will be better than ever. Visit Woodstock, Illinois, the home of everything Groundhog Days (the movie). This year, we’re celebrating the 33rd anniversary of the filming, with events for everyone. Woodstock, Illinois, home site of filming for the 1993 classic “Groundhog Day” starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Stephen Tobolowski, is hosting a Groundhog Days celebration with a Woodstock, Illinois celebrates Groundhog Day 2025 where Bill Murray filmed 1993 movie. Chairman of Woodstock Groundhog Days, Rick Bellairs, joined ABC7 on Sunday to talk about some of the many The Brief. Woodstock, Illinois, became the filming location for "Groundhog Day" (1993), and the town now celebrates the movie with an annual festival that attracts visitors from around the world. Theatre 121, the Woodstock Opera House resident production company is proud to present ‘Groundhog Day the Musical' in the Woodstock Opera House. 7 Tony Award nominations and winner of the [] January 31 @ 7:30 pm Welcoming of the Groundhog @ Old Courthouse Center; 📅 Jan 31, 2025. Groundhog Day Movie Memorabilia Open House; Groundhog Day Dinner Dance “Groundhog Day” the Movie; Groundhog Day the Musical @ Woodstock Opera House; 📅 Feb 1, 2025. Groundhog 5K @ Woodstock Metra Station; Groundhog Tales: Storytelling with Jim May The main event for Groundhog Day is the annual prognostication at 7:00 on February 2nd. Woodstock, IL 60098 Phone: 815-338-4300. Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Woodstock Willie will be making a grand appearance to kick off the weekend’s festivities. Theatre 121 cast will premiere a few songs from Groundhog Day the Musical. The day before Willie’s weather report, you can also catch Groundhog Storytime at Makety Make in the Old Courthouse Center at 5:15 p.m. Thursday, and a free Welcoming of the Groundhog, with a performance by the Woodstock Community Choir, at a new location this year, the Event Center at the Courthouse Center on the Square. Woodstock, Illinois - Home of Annual Groundhog Days Groundhog Days FestivalThis quirky annual festival celebrates the iconic filming locations of the cult classic Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray. In 1992, Woodstock, Illinois, was chosen as the backdrop for the film, and ever since, thousands of visitors from around the world have descended upon the historic Woodstock Downtown Square for One of Woodstock’s best features for Groundhog Day movie enthusiasts is the Walking Tour that the Groundhog Days Committee has developed. You may recognize our home from “Groundhog Day”. Yes, this is where Bill Murray stayed. Same house, yet anything but stuffy and repetitive! Woodstock, IL Thanks to a small town in northern Illinois, Groundhog Day is bigger than one chubby rodent and its shadow dropping a dubious weather forecast. In Woodstock, the groundhog takes a backseat to the real cause for celebration: the 1993 Bill Murray movie that was filmed there. WNIJ’s Under Rocks team visited the famed town square with the head of the annual festival (and Groundhog Day movie Rockford, Ill (WTVO) — Groundhog Day is just a few days away, and before the groundhog determines if we’ll have six more weeks for winter or an early Spring, he’s making Lovebug cocktails wit Woodstock, IL 60098 United States + Google Map + Google Calendar + iCal Export « Groundhog Day Dinner Dance; Groundhog Day the Musical Theatre 121, the Woodstock Opera House resident production company is proud to present ‘Groundhog Day the Musical' in the Woodstock Opera House. 7 Tony Award nominations and winner of the [] January 31 @ 7:30 pm Coming in 2025 – For the first time there will be a 5K Groundhog Day Run. Run through Woodstock and go past some of the places in the movie. Run past the bowling alley, piano teacher’s house, movie theater and Pennsylvanian Hotel. Everybody’s favorite insurance agent from Groundhog Day - Stephen Tobolowsky, aka Ned Ryerson, will be back again for the Groundhog Day festivities in Woodstock, IL. You have seen Stephen on TV in Deadwood, Californication, Glee, One Day at a Time, Goldbergs and many others. Woodstock Willie is the official weather-predicting groundhog of Woodstock, Illinois. Woodstock is the filming location of the Bill Murray 1993 classic movie, “Groundhog Day”. Woodstock’s Groundhog Day ceremony is well attended, attracting with hundreds of spectators and featuring a Groundhog Polka Band. A Brief History of Woodstock’s Groundhog Days. 1992 Filming of the movie; 1993 Groundhog Day movie released; Feb.2, 1994 Cheryl Wormley and Mike Palmquist cross paths, and decide that Woodstock needs to celebrate Groundhog Day in honor of the movie’s filming in Woodstock.
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