Nice article about the MAPS Expo via the Canton Daily Ledger:

The National MAPS Show returns to Western Illinois University-Macomb Friday-Sunday, March 30-April 1. This year’s theme is the Pennsylvanian Period.

The expo, tagged the world’s largest fossil-only show, will be held in Western Hall from 8 a.m.-5p.m. Friday- Saturday, March 30-31 and from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Sunday, April 1. Admission and parking are free.

The annual Fossil Expo brings dealers, exhibitors and fossil enthusiasts from across the nation to view, sell and purchase fossils.

At 5:15 p.m. Friday, keynote speaker Scott Elrick will present, “Geologic Secrets of Illinois’ Fossil Rain Forest.” Elrick is an associate geologist for the coal and petroleum section of the Illinois State Geology Survey Prairie Research Institute…. more