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The Mercer County Fairgrounds, located on 12th Avenue SW in Aledo, are the home of the annual county fair in Mercer County, Illinois.The fairgrounds were established in 1869 when the fair moved to Aledo; from its creation in 1853 until then, it had taken place in Millersburg.
Mar. 28—PRINCETON — Funding from Mercer County's hotel/motel tax will help bring the region some entertainment this summer when the Mercer County Fair comes to PikeView High School.
March 10, 2004 (173 Lock and Dam Rd. New Boston: 6: Mercer County Courthouse: Mercer County Courthouse: June 17, 1982 (100 SE 3rd St. Aledo: 7: Mercer County Fairgrounds
The first Illinois State Fair was celebrated in 1853 in Springfield. In that first year, the admission fee was 25 cents. The fair moved to Chicago in 1855. [2] The 1850s were a golden age of agricultural journalism, with a wide variety of editors offering many suggestions, well-founded or not, to increase farm productivity.
Jan. 31—CELINA — The Mercer County fair board has announced the hiring of Tafi Stober to the position of director of development for the board's Grand Event Center and Market Hall.
Illinois voters rejected the Illinois Fair Tax amendment, known formally as the "Allow for Graduated Income Tax Amendment", an amendment that appeared on ballots statewide in the general election. This was placed on the ballot by the state legislature in June 2019, and was a key campaign issue in Governor J. B. Pritzker 's 2018 election . [ 14 ]
Mercer County was part of this "Military Tract." Seven years after Illinois became a state, Mercer County was founded. It was formed from unorganized territory near Pike County on January 13, 1825. Although the county had been created, its government was not organized for several years; for administration purposes it was attached first to ...
Buildings and structures in Mercer County, Illinois (2 C, 10 P) E. Education in Mercer County, Illinois (1 C, 2 P) G. Geography of Mercer County, Illinois (3 C) N.