Katelyn Dorn, 6, of Campton Hills helps prepare a dairy calf Tuesday at the Kane County Fairgrounds in St. Charles. The county fair opens Wednesday and continues through Sunday.
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The 146th annual Kane County Fair begins its five-day run at 8 a.m. Wednesday with sheep and poultry judging at the fairgrounds on Randall Road in St. Charles.
Preparations pretty much wrapped up Tuesday under threatening skies, a bit of rain and unseasonably cool temperatures. It was in the 50s early Tuesday.
"I have never been here when it's been this cold," said Liz Dorn of Campton Hills while washing her family's calves.
The family has 17 animals at the fair.
"It will be good for the animals. They won't be so stressed out," Dorn said.
The midway opens at 3 p.m. Wednesday and it's Customer Appreciation Day, when $15 gets you into the fair plus unlimited rides at the carnival. 7th Heaven performs at 7 p.m. at the Sound Stage.
The fair is open 3 to 11 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, noon to midnight Friday and Saturday, and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday.
For details, visit www.KaneCountyFair.com, or call (630) 584-6926.
Threatening skies - along with colder temperatures - hang over the Kane County Fairgrounds in St. Charles Tuesday. The fair begins its five-day run Wednesday. The midway opens at 3 p.m.
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Clay Cargola, 15, of Sugar Grove, puts his hen back in a cage at the Kane County Fairgrounds Tuesday in St. Charles. Cargola will show the hen when poultry and sheep judging gets underway Wednesday at the fair.
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Richard Crome of Charleston, left, and Zack Klunick of Springfield trim a ewe at the Kane County Fairgrounds Tuesday in St. Charles. Trimming is generally done as the final cut after a sheep has been shorn. Crome said he has been coming to the Kane County Fair for more than 20 years.
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