Madeline Wick, 4, eats a cream puff on Sunday, the last day of the Wisconsin State Fair, which reported attendance of more than a million and more than 400,000 cream puffs sold. Credit: Alyssa Pointer

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All those cream puffs paid off big time this summer.

The Wisconsin State Fair reported a record attendance for 2014, with 1,030,811 people attending the fair between July 31 and Aug. 10.

This is the second year in a row that attendance topped 1 million fairgoers. It's also about a 1% increase from last year's attendance, making this the most popular fair since 1969, according to a news release on the fair's website.

The fair's final weekend alone drew nearly 300,000 people, and the final Saturday was the most crowded day of the fair, with almost 137,000 in attendance.

Other notable numbers from this year's fair: The Giant Slide drew more than 125,000 rides; 3,000 people were shot 170 feet into the air in the Ejection Seat ride; and, in another record breaker, the Wisconsin Bakers Association sold more than 400,000 cream puffs.

The 2015 Wisconsin State Fair is scheduled for Aug. 6-16.

Check out the Journal Sentinel's videos and other coverage of this year's fair.

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