Raw States
DuQuoin State Fair
Du Quoin, IL · Festival
- When
- August 27 – September 6, 2027
- Where
- DuQuoin State Fairgrounds · Du Quoin · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Illinois' second state fair runs eleven days each late summer at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, built in 1923 on former strip-mine land and once home to harness racing's Hambletonian from 1957 to 1980. Now run by the state, it draws well over a quarter million visitors with a midway, livestock shows, and grandstand concerts.
The history within reach
- DuQuoin State Fairsame spot
Illinois' second state fair runs eleven days each late summer at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, built in 1923 on former strip-mine land and once home to harness racing's Hambletonian from 1957 to 1980.
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Two men fishing from a small aluminium boat drifted toward the dam at Lake Murphysboro in 2015, and one of them worked out what was about to happen before the other did.
The April 2024 totality crossed the 2017 path near Carbondale, giving one small Illinois city two total eclipses in seven years, a coincidence it built festivals, T-shirts and a tourism strategy around.
A sandstone arch about ninety feet across in the Shawnee National Forest, cut by a creek that found a weakness and went through the rock rather than around it.