SPRINGFIELD -- Setup has begun for the World's Largest Pancake Breakfast in downtown Springfield.

The annual event run by the Spirit of Springfield and sponsored this year by MGM Springfield is Saturday from 8 to 11 a.m. but crews have already closed off three city blocks of Main Street in downtown Springfield to begin setting up for the event.

Main street is blocked off from State Street to Bridge Street.

Crews have set up a "Berlin Wall" of folding tables down the center of the road in preparations for the breakfast, which had a few people Friday morning trying to jump over them to get to the other side of the street.

Pancakes, coffee, juice and milk will be available to eat and drink at the Saturday morning breakfast. Tickets are $3 for adults and $1.50 for children. With help from the team of event sponsors, the Spirit of Springfield will be able give away 65,000 free breakfast tickets to area students.