Illinois State Fair

Cicadas trill rhythmically in the trees.

And now we're at the Illinois State Fair on this hot early August night.

Ned and Moose enter the fairgrounds gate, passing a towering Lincoln statue.

Ned gets some judgy eyebrow raises and head shakes as people pass.

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a.m springfield morning to you let's say good morning kevin lust with the american business club i can't help but think whenever i say kevin lust american business club think of the illinois state fair and we were just talking off air i think and kevin hang in for a minute anyway uh i think somebody asked the other day said sam when do they announce the axe for the fair so well i said last year i believe they announced the first one in october yeah Because I was talking to some ladies out at the state retirement getting some paperwork, and I retired November 1, and they were talking about, I hear they're going to announce an act and so on and so forth.

Who do you think it's going to be? And I said, well, I have an inside information, but I can't share it with you.

I said, now, if you help my retirement out a little bit, then I'll give you the inside information.

But I think it might have been, so I'm not sure.

But I know that Becky wanted to announce it, as in Becky Clark, the State Fair manager, who always likes to announce it early as possible, at least before Christmas, to create some interest and things like that and get things moving for mega passes and Christmas gifts and things like that.

You never too early to talk about the Illinois State Fair.

Kevin Lusher, you're talking about something else today.

If you really want to watch great harness racing, this is probably the world series of harness racing here in Illinois right now for 2026.

It's an even bigger purse in some cases than what's offered at the Illinois State Fair.

So that'll be out at the fairgrounds tomorrow and then.

Our good friends, of course, it's the annual...

Pritzker would not rule out cuts to the program if the state's financial condition worsens.

But he says the program has changed the lives of state employees, including one woman Pritzker said he met at the Illinois State Fair.

She said, you saved my life.

which is a tremendous thing to hear from somebody.

This was one of two that we got from him.

A full sib to a steer that we had that won Illinois State Fair two years ago.

That lady killer cow, she's raised a ton of stuff.

Peppers, steers, everything.

listening to Uncle Sam Madonia.

That's probably the best way to do, listen to Mr. Illinois State Fair himself.

Or, you know, they can call or text.

We get a lot of texts, believe it or not, on our phone.

This one reminds me a lot of this one's mom's full brother.

So that cow's a full sieve to the third overall seer at the Illinois State Fair.

Last year and this year reminds me a ton of that one.

That one came out of Jason Colehouse's program.

Okay, he is.

You know, he could have gone to the Illinois State Fair if he had wanted to.

He

physically could not.