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Get Your Loyalty Day and Garage Sale Maps Here

It's a fun-filled weekend here with the 18th Annual City-Wide Garage Sale kicking off today and the 37th Annual Loyalty Day Parade on Sunday.

Are you going to stay in town for an action-packed weekend? Please say "yes."

City-Wide Garage Sale

The 18th Annual Batavia City-Wide Garage Sale starts today, April 29 and continues Sat., April 30. The sales start at 8 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. each day.

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Batavia Patch attached the map for the garage sale above as a JPEG and as a PDF. Our "zoom in" range on the map is limited, so you might also want to download the map here.

Proceeds of the fees paid by willing sellers go to support Batavia's 4th of July Fireworks show.

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Loyalty Day Parade 2011

The 37th Annual Loyalty Day Parade kicks off at 1:30 p.m. at Raddant Road and Wilson Street.

Grab a spot along the parade route, which continues west on Wilson and then South on Route 25 (River St.) to the Batavia VFW, 645 S. River St.

To get to the Loyalty Day maps, move your cursor over the Garage Sale map above. Click on one of the gray arrows that appear to see the parade lineup map and the route map.

This year's parade theme is "We Support—10 Years of Operation Enduring Freedom."

Parade Street Closures

Wilson Street will be also be closed starting on the east side at Woodland Hills Road all the way downtown across the bridge to Island Avenue. 

Route 25 commuters will be sent to Route 31 during the parade, according to the Kane County Chronicle.

Read more about the parade here.



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