State Fair attendance numbers, day by day:
Day 1 (Thursday, Aug. 27): 110,267 this year, compared with 94,256 for 2014's first day and 106,852 in 2013. The record first-day attendance was 119,145 in 2010.
Source: Minnesota State Fair
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