Eli's Cheesecake holding festival to celebrate National Cheesecake Day

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sunday is National Cheesecake Day and you can celebrate with hometown favorite Eli's Cheesecake.

Eli's was gracious enough to drop off some cheesecake at ABC7. The company is hosting a Cheesecake Festival starting at 9 a.m. at the Eli's bakery, 6701 West Forest Preserve Drive in Chicago.

Activities include a 16' long cheesecake-eating Raptor dinosaur puppet from the Jurassic World exhibit at the Field Museum, The Jesse White Tumblers, the cheesecake "Olympics" including hockey with a cheesecake puck, cheesecake hula hoop contest and more.

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