After 154 years, the Kane County Fair has become about as resilient as the professional bull riders at the event who get back up and dust off their boots for another ride.
Bull rider Austin Chaffin, 20, hails from Los Angeles and was participating in the Professional Championship Bullriders show at the fair Friday.”Bull riding is like all of the excitement and adrenaline you can pack into a car crash,” Chaffin said. ”My grandpa and father rode bulls. It runs in the blood.”
Kane County Fair Board President Larry Breon describes the county fair as an affordable “family entertainment venue” at a time when the cost of everything else keeps rising. Julian Rodriguez, 17, from Fort Worth, Texas, was feeling a tad queasy from some of the carnival rides but was ready to see the bull riding on Friday. He was with his cousin Elisha Thomas, 13, from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They were both in the area visiting family in Hampshire.
Aurora resident Annabel Rivera, 26, was with her parents and three siblings at the fair Friday. She said she’s been coming to the fair since her youth. The Lind family of Elgin was well represented in the Poultry Barn at the fair. Parents Jake and Lindsey Lind were overseeing the exhibits of their two sons, Connor, 12 and Cooper, 10.Connor plays four sports in school in addition to his involvement in 4-H, he said.
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