Hoopeston Il Sweet Corn Festival. The labor day weekend tradition in hoopeston officially kicks off at 5 pm thursday, as the national sweetcorn festival gets underway. The national sweetcorn festival originated in 1941 through an adaptation of the original hoopeston sweetcorn festival.

The national sweetcorn festival in hoopeston, illinois, is a beloved annual event celebrating the region’s agricultural heritage. Clingenpeel of the hoopeston jaycees says not only were the people hungry for the return of events like this, the organizations like the jaycees were too.