Farmers Markets near Lowell, IN

City of Crown Point's Farmers' Market runs on the historic courthouse square area at 101 N. East St. in downtown Crown Point, the Lake County seat. The city lists market dates on its own events calendar; call 219-662-3250 for current hours and vendor details.

St. John

Austin Avenue - Redar Park Schererville

A seasonal market at Redar Park on Austin Avenue in Schererville, with produce, baked goods, and artisan crafts from local vendors. Listings are inconsistent on exact hours and whether it runs indoors or out, so this one is best confirmed directly with the town before a special trip.

Set up on South Park Avenue in Schererville, a separate listing from the town's Redar Park market with produce, baked goods, and craft vendors from the region. Directory information on hours and season is thin, so treat this as a smaller or newer market worth a phone call before visiting.

Crete

Crete European Market sets up Monday afternoons, 4 to 8 p.m., from mid-June through early August, in the Crete United Methodist Church parking lot at Main and Exchange. The Crete Area Chamber of Commerce runs it and welcomes cottage food producers alongside traditional growers, with booth fees of $27 a week or $216 for a full season. Coordinator Somer Snow handles vendor applications for the chamber.

Momence

Momence

Momence's farmers market sets up Wednesdays from 3:30 to 6 p.m., mid-June through early September, at the Schoeffner Farm Museum grounds on the Kankakee River. Vendors sell vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk, and meat straight off the farm, alongside handmade crafts and other local goods. Vendor and sponsorship questions go through Momence City Hall. It's a small-town market in a river town with roots back to 1834, not a tourist stop.

Highland

Highland Street Market sets up in the Main Square parking lot at 3001 Ridge Road, with vendors selling baked goods, cheese, crafts, herbs, vegetables, and honey. It accepts credit cards and WIC, which isn't a given at every small Indiana market. It's a separate operation from the town's Parks and Recreation Department market on the other side of Highland.

Kennedy & Highway Ave. Highland

Highland's Parks and Recreation Department runs its own farmers market at Kennedy Avenue and Highway Avenue, distinct from the separately organized Highland Street Market across town on Ridge Road. It's a parks-department market selling seasonal produce and local goods through the growing season — check the Highland Parks and Recreation site for the current week's vendor list and hours.

Park Forest has run a farmers market since 1974, making it one of the older markets in the south suburbs. The 2026 season runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., from May 30 through October 3, with produce, baked goods, and crafts alongside prepared food like pork sandwiches and tamales. It has recently operated under the name Park Forest Community Market.

Gary

W Margaret St & Hubbard St Thornton

The Village of Thornton runs this market — officially 'Market in the Park' — at 102 Hubbard Street, spring through fall. It connects local growers directly with residents in this small south-suburban village rather than routing through a chamber of commerce, and it's small enough that most of the vendors are known by name rather than by booth number.

Thornton

Thornton's Market in the Park sets up on Saturday mornings at Hubbard Street, a small outdoor market built around local farmers and artisans rather than big produce distributors. The Village of Thornton runs it as a community gathering, with a vendor lineup that shifts through the season.

The Morocco Farmers Market sets up on East State Street in this small Newton County town near the Illinois border. No current hours, vendor list, or contact details could be verified online.

A seasonal farmers market at 1000 Sterling Avenue in Flossmoor, part of the south suburban market circuit that runs spring through fall with local produce and vendor goods.

Homewood

Run as an extension of the Miller Beach Arts and Creative District, this Gary market sets up on Sundays from May through late September along Lake Street. It's a nonprofit, self-sustaining operation funded by vendor fees rather than city budget, selling organic produce, flowers, and prepared foods from local sellers in the Miller neighborhood on Lake Michigan's shore.

Chicago

Whiting

The Whiting Farmers Market sets up in front of City Hall at 1443 119th Street, running seasonally between spring and fall. It's a small, walkable market in a Lake Michigan steel town better known for its Pierogi Fest than produce stands. Call City Hall at 219-659-7700 for this year's schedule before making the trip.

Manteno's farmers market sets up on the square, 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from May through September, 4 to 8 p.m. The Village of Manteno hosts it downtown, with vendor lineups that change by the week — call Village Hall at 815-929-4800 for the current schedule.

Valparaiso

Tuesdays and Saturdays, 9am-1pm, at the William E. Urschel Pavilion in Central Park Plaza on Lafayette Street. Expect farm-fresh produce and bakery items, plants in early summer shifting to vegetables through fall, with occasional relocations for events like Wine Fest announced on Facebook.

This South Side market runs July through October at Arcade Park, 111th and Cottage Grove, in the Pullman neighborhood. It's part of the City of Chicago's farmers market program, selling fresh produce and local goods to the historic Pullman community.

Oak Forest

Oak Forest's farmers market runs every other Wednesday, 4 to 8 p.m., in the Metra station parking lot near 157th Street and Cicero Avenue, a shift from its earlier Saturday morning schedule. Beyond produce, baked goods, and flowers, the city layers in health screenings, cooking demonstrations, and kids' activities like face painting on market days. It functions as much as a community event as a place to buy vegetables.

Chicago

Pullman Farmers' Market sets up in Arcade Park at 111th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, inside Chicago's Pullman Historic District — the planned company town built around the old Pullman railcar works. Local vendors sell seasonal produce during the market's summer run. Pullman's status as a National Monument brings foot traffic most neighborhood markets don't get.

Rensselaer

Tinley Park's market sets up in Harmony Square every Saturday from June through October, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. More than 60 vendors sell produce, baked goods, and local crafts, making it one of the longer-running markets in Chicago's south suburbs. The Village of Tinley Park runs it rain or shine, with weather delays posted on Facebook. Parking and vendor details go up each season on the market's page.

Tinley Park

Downtown Kankakee's Winter Market takes over The Majestic at 150 N. Schuyler Avenue for a handful of cold-weather Saturdays — cozy, indoor, and built around local vendors selling handmade goods and seasonal food. It accepts LINK/EBT and matches purchases through the Link Up Illinois program. Check downtownkankakee.com for the current season's dates, since it runs on a limited winter schedule rather than weekly.

Kankakee

Downtown Kankakee shuts down South Schuyler Avenue every Saturday, May through October, for this market at the corner of Schuyler and Merchant. Doors open 8 a.m. and run to noon, rain or shine. Vendors bring farm-grown produce, meat, cheese, fresh flowers, and baked goods, plus specialty foods, crafts, and food trucks, with live music through the morning.

Kankakee's Saturday farmers market runs along South Schuyler Avenue in downtown Kankakee, open 8 a.m. to noon from May through October. Local growers sell produce, meat, cheese, and fresh flowers next to bakers, specialty food vendors, and craft tables, with live music and food trucks rounding out the morning before the noon close.

This is the Merchant Street side of Kankakee's downtown Saturday market, which runs the length of South Schuyler Avenue from the intersection outward. May through October, 8 a.m. to noon, vendors sell farm-grown produce, meat, cheese, and baked goods alongside crafters and food trucks. Rain doesn't cancel it — Kankakee's market runs rain or shine.

With nearly 70 vendors most Sundays, this is one of the larger markets in the south suburbs — produce, flowers, plants, honey, meat, seafood, dairy, baked goods, canned goods, and hot food, plus a knife and blade sharpener on-site. It runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Breidert Green in downtown Frankfort, late April through late October.

Frankfort

Chesterton's European Market sets up on Broadway in downtown Chesterton, a Porter County town near the Indiana Dunes. Its name points to a market with European-style vendor stalls rather than a standard produce-only farmers market; current vendor lineup and hours were not independently confirmed online.

Chesterton

Mokena

The Mokena Market runs Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., May through mid-October, at 10901 W. La Porte Road. Vendors bring fresh produce, homemade food goods, and artisan crafts to the lot each week, a smaller seasonal alternative to the town's bigger French Market events. Samantha Cooper coordinates the Mokena Downtown Market lineup. Expect the usual small-town rotation, whatever a Will County grower picked that morning, plus jars, baked goods, and handmade items from local makers.