Raw States
Illinois State Fair
Springfield, IL · Festival
- When
- August 12–22, 2027
- Where
- Illinois State Fairgrounds · Springfield · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
An 11-day state fair at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, with livestock and agricultural competitions, a butter cow, and a grandstand concert series. The 2026 fair runs August 13 through 23.
The history within reach
- Illinois State Fairsame spot
An 11-day state fair at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, with livestock and agricultural competitions, a butter cow, and a grandstand concert series.
- Lincoln's tomb1.3 mi
A hundred and seventeen feet of granite over a burial chamber, paid for by public subscription.
A white mob, refused the two Black prisoners it came for, burned Black businesses and homes for two days and lynched two men, one of them an eighty-four-year-old cobbler married to a white woman.
- The House Divided speech1.7 mi
Accepting the Republican nomination for the Senate, Lincoln opened with a house divided against itself cannot stand, and his friends told him the line would cost him the election.
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