Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your appetite, and bring your dancing shoes -- Family Fun Day and Parade are BACK in 2021!!

This year we'll have more of everything: more food vendors, more merchandise vendors, more bounce houses, more children's activities, more live entertainment.... and more time!

The parade will begin at Frances Willard at 10am, head north on 9th Street, and end at the Martin Luther King Center, where Family Fun Day will continue until 7pm.

Live entertainment will include:

• Metro Youth Program Call-out Round/Dance Battle (2:00-3:00 pm)

• Acoustic Soul (3:00-4:30 pm)

• Daniel & Pippy (5:00-6:45 pm)

• and rapper Yung Julio

NAACP of Rock Island County is organizing the community resource information fair, which will take place during Family Fun Day.

The Rock Island County Health Department will be on hand for a free Covid-19 vaccine clinic! Phizer and Johnson & Johnson will be available. Ages 12 and up.

Food vendors will include:

• Gaybos

• Smokin' Goodness

• NEST Cafe

• Bowlyou's Ice Cream and Grill

• the Carl Johnson family

• QC Gyros/Izzy's Place

Merchants will include:

• Urban Essence Cosmetics & Apparel

• American Bank & Trust

• The Artsy Bookworm

• Country Financial

• Cookies N Moo'r

• Gina Gee's

• Custom by Noel

• Klayy's Entertainment

• Moonchild Fashion Boutique

Thank you to DARI (Development Association of Rock Island) for sponsoring this event!