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The Illinois State Fair was held almost every summer during this more than 150-year-long period. On a few occasions it was suspended. In 1893, for example, the organizers of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago prepared to offer a larger lineup of agricultural products and machinery, so the Illinois State Fair canceled itself for one year.
In Georgia, get into the fall spirit at the Georgia State Fair. The annual fair in the North Georgia mountains. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009.
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57th Street Art Fair, Hyde Park, June; Chicago Art Book Fair, November [1] Chicago Artists Month, September/October [2] Gold Coast Art Fair, Grant Park, June [3] Manifest, Columbia College Chicago, May; SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, October/November [4] Wells Street Art Festival, Old Town, June [5]
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On October 9, 1893, the day designated as Chicago Day, the fair set a world record for outdoor event attendance, drawing 751,026 people. The debt for the fair was soon paid off with a check for $1.5 million (equivalent to $50.9 million in 2023). [4] Chicago has commemorated the fair with one of the stars on its municipal flag. [5]