{"id":530,"date":"2016-05-16T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/?guid=76d045da583061042d74b363de5deb9a"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T19:04:35","slug":"illinois-gemshows-cgmas-40th-anniversary-gem-mineral-jewelry-and-fossil-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/2016\/05\/16\/illinois-gemshows-cgmas-40th-anniversary-gem-mineral-jewelry-and-fossil-show\/","title":{"rendered":"#Illinois  #Gemshows &#8211; CGMA&#8217;S 40th Anniversary Gem, Mineral, Jewelry and Fossil Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>CGMA&#8217;S 40th Anniversary Gem, Mineral, Jewelry and Fossil Show<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">One of the Midwest region&#8217;s largest events for rockhounds by rockhounds&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8211; and Illinois largest!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Where<\/b>:  DuPage County Fairgrounds, 2015 Manchester Rd., Wheaton, IL<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>When<\/b>:  Memorial Day  weekend, May 28 and 29, 2016<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Retail and wholesale show hours,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (wholesale till 3 p.m.)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZO9OitrfouE\/VzoZgX33kdI\/AAAAAAABdLY\/J-QmDoj-Ge0KniO2FU41Fm4HB4C6O3kgQCLcB\/s1600\/CGMA_eFlyer_Final.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-pinit=\"registered\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZO9OitrfouE\/VzoZgX33kdI\/AAAAAAABdLY\/J-QmDoj-Ge0KniO2FU41Fm4HB4C6O3kgQCLcB\/s400\/CGMA_eFlyer_Final.jpg\" width=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Who and What: <\/b>More than 30 nationally known dealers, amazing exhibits by museums and private collectors, great educational guest speakers, silent auction, Kids&#8217; Room, door prizes, hands-on demonstrations of jewelry making, geode cracking, gold panning, opal cutting, sliver smithing, glass fusing, fossil preparation, and more.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The clubs of CGMA are Chicago Rocks &amp; Minerals Society (Skokie),&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Des Plaines Valley G<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">eological Society (Des Plaines),&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois (ESCONI,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Glen Ellyn), Elgin Rock Club (Elgin),&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Northeast Illinois Gold Prospectors (Mokena),&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">South Suburban Earth Science Club (Park Forest),&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">and West Suburban Lapidary Club&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">(Elmhurst),<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CGMA&#8217;S 40th Anniversary Gem, Mineral, Jewelry and Fossil ShowOne of the Midwest region&#8217;s largest events for rockhounds by rockhounds&nbsp;&#8211; and Illinois largest!Where:  DuPage County Fairgrounds, 2015 Manchester Rd., Wheaton, ILWhen:  Memorial Day  wee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gemshows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}