Editing Aledo, Illinois (section)

==Culture and media==
Aledo hosts two annual festivals, the Rhubarb Fest and Antique Days. The Rhubarb Festival, which is held every June in the city downtown, offers a variety of [[rhubarb]]-related activities, ranging from [[rhubarb pie]] sales to free rhubarb seed distributions. The festival additionally offers other crafts and forms of entertainment and music; it has been undertaken every year since 1991.<ref>{{cite web |year= |title=Aledo Rhubarb Fest |url=https://aledomainstreet.com/aledo-rhubarb-fest-2/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |work=Aledo Main Street |publisher=City of Aledo}}</ref> The city of Aledo's Antique Days festivals likewise occur annually in the month of September, and includes a citywide food festival, music from local residents and the high school music departments, and sports competitions among communities in the area.<ref>{{cite news|first=Robert |last=Blackford |title=Aledo prepares for seventh annual Antique Days |url=http://www.aledotimesrecord.com/entertainment/x289108167/Aledo-prepares-for-seventh-annual-Antique-Days |work=[[The Times-Record (Illinois)|The Times-Record]] |date=September 10, 2008 |access-date=2008-09-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707104549/http://www.aledotimesrecord.com/entertainment/x289108167/Aledo-prepares-for-seventh-annual-Antique-Days |archive-date=July 7, 2011 }}</ref>

Aledo has its own radio station, [[WRMJ-FM]]. WRMJ features country music along with live sports, local news and local programming. It broadcasts on a frequency of 102.3&nbsp;MHz from a tower west of Aledo. The radio station serves most of [[Mercer County, Illinois|Mercer County]], and was founded in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wrmj.com/about.htm |title=Station Profile |access-date=2008-09-22 |work=WRMJ-FM Radio Station |publisher=WRMJ 102.3 FM Radio |year=2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106071428/http://www.wrmj.com/about.htm |archive-date=2007-11-06 }}</ref> Mercer County's weekly newspaper, The ''Times Record'', is based in Aledo and is owned by [[Gannett]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Gannett Communities |url=https://gannettfoundation.org/contact-list/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=Gannett Foundation}}</ref> ''[[National Communications Magazine]]'', a publication for radio hobbyists, moved its operations from Ohio to Aledo in 2014 after being acquired by a local resident.