The nonprofit foundation designed to help upkeep Illinois’ fairgrounds plans on selling naming rights to state fair buildings to help pay for improvements.

Illinois Fairgrounds Foundation chairman John Slayton tells says that the group is in negotiations right now.

He says the foundations hopes to raise $3 million to $5 million a year and naming rights will be the “biggest dollars.”

The Illinois Department of Agriculture says the backlog of repairs needed at the state fairgrounds in Springfield and Du Quoin total about $180 million.