Country fair coming to West Chicago’s Kline Creek Farm

Pack the picnic basket, hitch up the horses and straighten your bonnet for the country fair at Kline Creek Farm.

Activities run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3 and 4, at the DuPage County Forest Preserve’s working historical farm, 1N600 County Farm Road, West Chicago. Admission is free.

Visitors will find the kind of entertainment that once drew farm families from all over the area to the fair.

The Amazing Budabi Brothers perform acrobatic feats at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.; Professor Marvel’s Amazing Flea Circus performs at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; ponder Professor MacRae’s exhibition of artifacts and oddities in the Tent of Wonders at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.; and world-champion gun spinner Garret Popek flashes the legendary skills of the Wild West at noon and 3 p.m.

Throughout the day, visitors can compete in a contest to take home a ribbon, play games, check out homemade pies and preserves, stroll through the livestock tent and hop on a hayrack ride.

In the 1890s, a local fair was an important social and economic event. Family members squeezed in work on fair projects among their many regular chores. Imagine hand-stitching a quilt, putting up perfect pickles or raising a calf, all to impress the judges and your neighboring farm families.

For details, call the farm at (630) 876-5900.