DeKALB – With its return to the downtown this year, Corn Fest and the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport are amicably parting ways.

Shawn Lowe, the co-chair of the Corn Fest committee, personally thanked the advisory board of the airport for allowing them to host the festival there as construction took place downtown. If the airport hadn’t hosted Corn Fest for five years, the festival probably would have stopped, Lowe said.

“If you guys hadn’t allowed this to happen out here in the first place,” Lowe said, “I don’t think we’d be having this discussion about having it back downtown after having that many years of not having it.”