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The Minnesota State Fair kicks off this week. Here’s a primer to help you get ready.

Starting Thursday, hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans will descend on the State Fairgrounds for the Great Minnesota ...
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Late Summer warmth and rain for the State Fair and in the Twin Tiers

Dry weather stays with us here in the Twin Tiers through part of the day Tuesday, but scattered showers and thunderstorms ...

Iowa State Fair 2025 attendance tops 1 million. Will Sunday's fairgoers break the record?

With one day to go, attendance to the Iowa State Fair in 2025 had already topped one million. The Iowa State Fair saw 118,093 ...
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Iowa State Fair sees third-highest attendance, third-largest economic impact

This year’s Iowa State Fair had the third-largest real (2025 dollars) economic impact of any in the fair’s 171-year history, ...

Iowa State Fair: See final attendance numbers for 2025 fair

The 2025 Iowa State Fair will go down as the third-biggest of all time. The 2024 Iowa State Fair was the biggest in the fair's 170-year history. According to fair officials, total attendance of last ...

This year's Iowa State Fair attendance was the third-highest in history

A total of 1,160,121 people attended the Iowa State Fair, which took place from Aug. 7 to Aug. 17, 2025. The number fell ...