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The Wisconsin State Fair is an annual event held at the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The modern fair takes place in August (occasionally beginning late July) and lasts 11 days.
Barrett was the subject of national news headlines when he was attacked outside the Wisconsin State Fair on August 15, 2009, by a man wielding a pipe. Barrett and some family members were leaving the fair when he responded to a woman's cries for help. They encountered a man and a woman in a heated confrontation.
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department is a law enforcement agency that protects the fair grounds and, if necessary, the area surrounding it. Officers enjoy full police powers, and has close connections to the West Allis Police Department. [4] The department was founded in 1907 as a police entity.
EAU CLAIRE — If an event has lasted more than 125 years, it has clearly done something right. Just ask Rusty Volk, the executive director with the Northern Wisconsin State Fair. “It is the ...
The Wisconsin State Fair welcomed 1,043,350 guests in 2023.That's up slightly over 2022's 1,003,450 fairgoers. According to the State Fair, about 841,000 people attended the fair in 2021.It was ...
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009. [4] [5]
After 93 years at Wisconsin State Fair, the Mille family is selling their Italian sausage business. When the fair opened the Mille family was finalizing discussions with a buyer.
The Milwaukee Mile is a 1.015 mi (1.633 km) oval race track in the central United States, located on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb west of Milwaukee. Its grandstand and bleachers seats approximately 37,000 spectators. Opened in 1903 as a dirt track, it was paved in 1954.