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Video and photos: How to cook 240 ears of corn in 10 minutes

Delightfully mild weather helped to bring out big crowds for this year’s Sweet Corn Circus in Uptown Normal – enough to gobble up 3,600 ears of corn. Can you imagine a more beautiful thing

WGLT visited the corn-cooking crew at North and Broadway to learn how they cook 240 ears of corn in 10 minutes using the power of steam. Here’s what they had to say about their sold-out corn:

And check out a photo gallery above from Saturday’s Sweet Corn Circus festivities.

Sami Johnson is a photo and video intern at WGLT. She joined the station in August 2025.
Ryan Denham is the digital content director for WGLT.