Roughly $170 million in spending was tied to 104 Illinois county fairs during the summer of 2014, the most recent numbers available, according to a University of Illinois Extension study. About $91 million of that was spent inside the fair, on food, entry fees and more. The rest was spent on hotels, food outside the fair, transportation, and lodging, among other things.
Horses stand idle and clowns call it quits as the coronavirus cancels Illinois rodeos. ‘This is the first time ever that we won’t have a rodeo.'
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