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The Wisconsin State Fair is an annual event held at the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The modern fair takes place in August (occasionally beginning late July) and lasts 11 days.
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department is a law enforcement agency that protects the fair grounds and, if necessary, the area surrounding it. Officers enjoy full police powers, and has close connections to the West Allis Police Department. [4] The department was founded in 1907 as a police entity.
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. [4] [5]
The Wisconsin State Fair welcomed 1,043,350 guests in 2023.That's up slightly over 2022's 1,003,450 fairgoers. According to the State Fair, about 841,000 people attended the fair in 2021.It was ...
EAU CLAIRE — If an event has lasted more than 125 years, it has clearly done something right. Just ask Rusty Volk, the executive director with the Northern Wisconsin State Fair. “It is the ...
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The first headlining show of the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair has been set.. Comedian Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias will play the first main stage show on opening day, Aug. 1.. Tickets, priced between ...
It was started in 1897 when the state government recognized the difficulty northern Wisconsin citizens had in trying to reach the Wisconsin State Fair held in West Allis. The fair had an attendance of 90,000 in 2001. Since then, the fair's attendance has grown slightly. In 2013, [1] the attendance was 70,956 compared to 68,000 in 2010. [2]