Some visitors traveled thousands of miles to celebrate the holiday in the quaint town of 25,000 people in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago. Woodstock has become a yearly destination for “Groundhog Day” fans to relive the time-loop that Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors found himself in.
It’s the time of the year where one creature predicts the fate of winter. A northern Illinois city is celebrating the making of a movie that derived from this phenomenon.
If this cold, gray weather has you wondering when spring will come, Woodstock will be celebrating Groundhog Day with Woodstock Willie s annual prognostication and a variety of related events Feb. 1-2.
"Groundhog Day" hit the big screen 30 years ago this year, a year after the iconic comedy was filmed in Woodstock. In keeping with the movie s plot, the city hopes this year s festival looks similar to previous ones.
Sure, Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell were the stars. But around these parts, everyone knows it was Punxsutawney s picturesque stand-in that stole the show.And, as townspeople here prepare once again to relive their early February appointment with a weather-predicting marmot, organizers of Woodstock Groundhog Days are pulling out all of the stops.