Chop Around the Clock – 2025

Get ready to trim for a tremendous cause! Join us for the 34th annual Chop Around the Clock at Foltos Tonsorial Parlor, running non-stop from 4 PM Friday, June 6 to 4 PM Saturday, June 7. We’ll be cutting hair for 24 hours straight—and donating every penny raised to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana.

While this is the 36th year since the very first Chop, we took a brief pause during the COVID years—making 2025 our 34th year of non-stop “chopping.” And what a legacy it is: together, we’ve raised over $400,000 to help families stay close to their hospitalized children.
But Chop is about so much more than haircuts (although, yes, a 2 a.m. trim can be surprisingly delightful). It’s 24 hours of community, compassion, and celebration—complete with:

  • Live Music & Entertainment
  • Free Cookout Dinner & Bake Sale
  • Face Painting & Balloon Blowing
  • Storytelling & Kids’ Games
  • An Incredible Raffle
  • The Epic Ice Cream Eating Contest
  • And, of course, haircuts around the clock!

Whether you’re cutting, eating, dancing, volunteering, or just stopping by to smile—we need you. This is a 100% volunteer-run event, and it truly takes a village. Want to help? Fantastic! Contact Craig Foltos at 630-879-5253 to pitch in or learn more.

Schedule Highlights

Friday, June 6
4:00 PM – Haircuts begin, food and balloon fun kick off
6:00 PM – Cookout and live music
6:00 PM – 🍦 Ice Cream Eating Contest – Come hungry, leave frozen
7:00 PM – Kids’ games
8:00–11:00 PM – Bingo, dancing, live musicians, more fun and games
11:00 PM–8:00 AM – Late-night haircuts, soft music, and storytelling

Saturday, June 7
8:00 AM – Bring breakfast and bring your appetite
8:30–10:00 AM – Morning music and games
10:00 AM–4:00 PM – Face painting, more music, more food, and fabulous haircuts!

Join the Fun. Make a Difference. Be Part of the Chop.
Whether you come for an hour or stay all night, every smile and every snip supports families when they need it most. We can’t wait to see you there!

Chop Around the Clock 2024: 35th Annual Fundraiser for RMHC-CNI

Join us Friday, May 31 to Saturday, June 1, 2024 at Foltos Tonsorial Parlor for our 35th annual Chop Around the Clock! For 24 straight hours (4pm – 4pm), we’ll be cutting hair and donating all proceeds to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana to help families with hospitalized children get better together

Since its inception, Chop Around the Clock has raised over $300,000, thanks to the amazing support from our community. Come for the haircuts, stay for the music, food, raffles, bake sale, and good times.

This event is not just about haircuts; it’s about community. From the lady who braved traffic to donate $5 to the folks who bake cookies or stay all night to help keep things clean, our neighbors rally together to support an incredible cause.

Want to be part of the action? Bring your friends, tell your neighbors, and come down to Foltos for a memorable time. Let’s make a difference together, one haircut at a time.

Join the Fun, Make a Difference. We can’t wait to see you at Chop!

Chop Around the Clock 2016

We Need You!

Foltos Tonsorial Parlor is hosting the 27th annual Chop Around the Clock on Friday June 3 at 4:00 pm to Saturday, June 4 at 4:00 pm. We at Foltos cut hair for 24 straight hours, and donate all the proceeds to the Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Charities. This is a wonderful event for Foltos. Thanks to the good people of the community, we have raised over $300,000 over the years with this event.

The Chop has music, food, haircuts, raffles (we need raffle items and raffle ticket buyers), a bake sale, laughter, and good vibrations. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors – come on down, listen to music and eat some BBQ. Ronald McDonald will visit the Chop on Friday night at 7:00 p.m.

Thank you for anything you can do to help support this event! We really couldn’t do it without you. And I really do give good haircuts at 2 in the morning.

I would like to do a live streaming video for portions of the Chop. I need help with this – any volunteers? See you at the Chop.

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Chop Thank You!

A great big Foltos Thank You from our house to yours!  The 2015 Chop Around the Clock is over and the judges have rendered their decision.  It was the best of times!  To all of you who got haircuts, cooked food, ate food, played music, listened to my stories, bought raffle tickets … muchos gracias.  This year’s Chop raised over $12,600.  That’s a whole lot of cash!  Over the past 26 years, we have raised over $300,000 for the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities.  Ronald McDonald houses all around the world house, feed and just generally care for families in very challenging times.  My head and heart feel right knowing that Foltos’ Tonsorial Parlor, in a small way, is helping support this cause.  Your involvement and generosity makes this event and Foltos what it is.  Thank you!!

Chop Around The Clock

It’s almost that time of year again!!

Foltos is proud to once again host Chop Around the Clock benefiting the Ronald McDonald Foundation.

Starting on June 6th at 4pm and going 24 hours we will have various family fun, food and a chop-a-thon, from which all proceeds will go to charity. A raffle will also take place featuring various items and services donated by members of the community.

We’re having a great bbq and live music on friday night!

This year will mark our 25th anniversary since its inception in 1989.

Come on down to Foltos in Batavia for a little fun for a good cause!

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