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The ACS tent at the Fair is located in the Conservation World section of the Fair.   In 2004 we had 7,777 visitors to our booth, and in 2005 our attendance was 11, 843, up by over 50%!!  2006 broke the 2005 record with 13,216 visitors.  We were plagued with heavy rains several days in 2007, hurting overall attendance.  The weather was great in 2008 and we set a new record with 14,626 visitors!   Finally 2009 had severe storms causing severe wind damage to some adjacent tents.  Our area of the Fair, Conservation World, closed early three days out of the ten.

The demonstrations and hands-on experiments have proved to be very popular, and we have added new experiments in both categories this year.  We handed out packets of information and educational resources to all teachers that came to our tent and identify themselves. 

Thanks to financial support from a number of Illinois corporations, we have expanded the size of the tent by 50% in the last two years to accommodate the increased number of visitors.

Check out the photos from:   2004,  2005,  2006,  2007,   2008,   2009

Here is the daily tally of the number of visitors to our booth for each year.

*   Extensive storms caused Conservation World to close early.
** Tornados in the area and high winds caused extensive damage to nearby tents and a mid-afternoon closing of Conservation World.