What Killed The Cook County Fair?
Curious City
WBEZ Chicago
4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When were the... |
| 0:03.0 | What school's the... |
| 0:06.0 | Who decides what the next... |
| 0:08.0 | Where's that story? |
| 0:09.0 | Why they keep the look? |
| 0:11.0 | What is this? |
| 0:13.0 | It's Curious City. |
| 0:15.0 | Where WBEZ answers your questions... |
| 0:17.0 | About Chicago, the region, and its people. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm reporter Laura Pavan. |
| 0:22.4 | Chicago resident Amanda Jensen was on Facebook one afternoon |
| 0:26.2 | when she saw a friend post one of those, |
| 0:28.4 | Look at me, pictures of herself, winning a prize at a county fair. |
| 0:33.6 | Amanda wanted to win something, too. |
| 0:36.1 | And remembered, she had her mother-in-law's chocolate chip cookie recipe. |
| 0:40.1 | The blue ribbon would be hers. |
| 0:42.3 | So she perused the internet to find a fair she could enter her treats into. |
| 0:46.5 | But unfortunately, as I was looking for Cook County Fair, I saw some articles that said that there wasn't one. |
| 0:54.6 | She's right. |
| 0:55.8 | Illinois's got 102 counties, and Cook is one of just eight with no county fair. |
| 1:01.1 | And that was surprising and disheartening. |
| 1:04.3 | Here's what Amanda and millions of Cook County residents are missing out on. |
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