Last year's participants show off their open class sheep during judging. | DUPAGE COUNTY FAIR
Denise Lundeen runs the merry-go-round at the Kendall County Fair on Thursday. | Donnell Collins~For Sun-Times Media
Jayden Verhaeghe, 2, gets some trick riding lessons from his grandfather, Jim Verhaeghe, both of Plato Center, at the Kendall County Fair on Thursday.| Donnell Collins~For Sun-Times Media
Illinois State Troopers slide down the Giant Slide amusement ride Sunday, Aug. 22, 1999, at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill. The troopers had finished their state fair detail after their morning shift ended at 2 p.m. and then celebrated with the slide. The state fair ran for 10 days. (AP Photo/State Journal-Register, Jeffrey Sauger)
Step right up!: Carnival worker Tim Simpson high-fives Max Aldred of Elgin after he won a prize at a previous Kane County Fair. | File photo
Tractor pulls, demolition derbies, country music and rodeos. Not just items on a good old boy’s bucket list, but trappings of a proper county fair. With mid-summer comes fair time all across the country, and here’s a guide to county fairs in our neck of …
