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The 2025 Iowa State Fair is over, and officials have tallied up attendance numbers, with the final count making it the ...
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The 2025 Iowa State Fair fell short of setting a new record for the total number of fairgoers, but was still one of the ...
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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 ...
The ten-year-old won the Sprouts division of the talent show at the Woodbury County Fair, advancing into the preliminary and ...
DES MOINES, Iowa — The results of the 2025 Iowa State Fair Straw Poll have been released.
The first Iowa State Fair was held Oct. 25-27, 1854 in Fairfield. It's been held at the fairgrounds in east Des Moines since 1886 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.