People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Illinois State Fair Opens. [ARTICLE]

Illinois State Fair Opens.

Springfield, 111., Sept. 24.—The gates of Illinois’ great fair were thrown open yesterday. Of the 50,000 visitors, 35,000 to 40,000 were children, all of them being admitted free. The paid admissions were twice the number of the same day last year. The great exposition hall, horticultural and farm products buildigs and machinery hall, each of which cost $70,000 or over, were well filled. The exhibits in all classes are about 50 per cent more than last year, and fifteen acres are covered with farm implements and machinery that could not be contained in machinery hall.