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Today, my wife and I attended the first day of the 2021 MAPS Show at the Orr Building at the Illinois State Fair Grounds. The last two days, we stayed at the Northfield Inn and attended the hotel portion of the show. You can check out my thread on that part and see all of the echinoids that I picked up. Today was a much better day for me and I picked up some great pieces at unbelievable prices on some items. I will first show a few pics of the venue and some of the fossils, etc., and I will end with the stuff that I picked up. This venue is so much better that the place that they use to hold it in Iowa City, Iowa. The Orr building was warm and had outstanding lighting. They had some displays for attendees to look at. There was a small concession stand for people to get food. There were live talks that people could attend to learn about fossils, etc. There was a small kids corner where kids could get fossils. General views- CONTINUED ON NEXT POST

I am at the Hotel Show portion of the 2021 MAPS Fossil Show. There are a number of vendors in the hotel rooms and there are a lot of fossils to be bought, hopefully tomorrow I will see more of them before the show starts on Friday at the Orr Building on the State Fairgrounds property. Today was an echinoid type of day for me. My wife and I arrived at about 5:30 pm and I only spent a little time checking things out before we went to dinner. Here are few pieces that I picked up today, some do not have an id, but some of them came together and the price was right. If you know an id or see something that I may have wrong, please let me know.