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DuPage County Fair cancels July dates The DuPage County Fair has canceled its originally scheduled July dates. Organizers hope to stage a similar event in the fall. Daily Herald File Photo
Updated 4/12/2021 3:18 PM
The DuPage County Fair, originally scheduled for July, has been canceled for the second straight year because of the pandemic.
This time, organizers are hoping that a similar event could be scheduled for the fall.
The DuPage County Fair Association is working with the University of Illinois Extension in DuPage to create an opportunity just for 4-H members to show their projects and animals. That way, some 4-H members in DuPage can still earn a competition spot at the Illinois State Fair in August.
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The decision to cancel the fair was a difficult one, DuPage County Fair Association officials said in a news release. (Laurie Farver)
ACROSS ILLINOIS Hopes that the DuPage County Fair would return in summer 2021 have been dashed after the DuPage County Fair Association announced that the fair would be canceled for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus crisis. The 2021 DuPage County Fair had been tentatively scheduled for July 21 through July 25, but officials are still planning to explore the possibilities of a similar type event in the fall, according to a news release.
The news comes after Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker s March 31 announcement that plans to further reopen the state are on hold due to increasing coronavirus hospitalizations.
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