In a highly urbanized area, where working family farms and barnyard animals have all but disappeared from the landscape, the county fair still preserves a sweet slice of rural life.
People who don't know their cattle breeds can gather around a few corner stalls in one of the barns at the DuPage County Fair in Wheaton this weekend to learn how to milk a Jersey cow.
But instead of wrangling large livestock, a new generation of 4-H kids will show pet rabbits and dogs during the suburban county fair season. And fair organizers who are still trying to recover from the pandemic have planned activities that have little or nothing to do with agriculture. Shannon Dunn, general manager of the Lake County Fairgrounds & Events Center in Grayslake, has been hamming it up with the event mascot, Porkchop, who's slated to tie the knot -- tail? -- with his pen pal, Penny, on Saturday.
"We are hopeful we get back to the rodeo. We'd like to see the demo derby again. We'd like to get some of those back," McGuire said of fair mainstays."But we do have to get ourselves a little bit stronger financially as an organization and continue to strengthen our group and move it forward. There's a lot involved in those. It takes up a lot of time. It takes up some ground and they are relatively expensive.
"I actually won that many years ago here at the fairgrounds," McGuire said."The blueberry pie, that was my favorite."
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