The Illinois State Fair is a record-breaker

at the Grandstand. This week two records have been broken, the first was the lineup of Grandstand acts bringing in the highest amount of ticket revenue ever at more than $2.1 million. Now more tickets than ever have been sold for the string music acts. 

State Fair Manager Kevin Gordon says they felt early on that ticket sales would be good but they have been blown away by the demand this year.

Gordon says more research will be needed to know officially but he thinks this weekend’s concerts with 31,000 tickets sold so far might be the biggest weekend of all time at the fair.