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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

Muhammad Ali won his first professional fight here; Elvis, the Rolling Stones and Elton John played here; and every August some 600,000 Kentuckians arrive for fried chicken, bourbon and livestock. The Kentucky Exposition Center, at 937 Phillips Lane beside Louisville's airport, is the sixth-largest facility of its kind in the United States - 1.3 million square feet of indoor space on over 520 acres. The project took six years and a war to finish: the State Fair Board bought 396 acres in 1950 fo...