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Adventureland (Illinois) Dispensa's Kiddie Kingdom and Castle of Toys. Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water Slides. Harlem Park. Kiddieland Amusement Park. Luna Park, Chicago. Old Chicago. Riverview Park (Chicago) White City (Chicago) Categories: Amusement parks in Illinois. Defunct amusement parks in the United States by state or territory.
Jun 9, 2016 · 1. Riverview Park Amusement Park in Chicago: This park was located at Belmont Avenue near Lane Tech High School and was open from 1904-1967. This park was most famous for the Bob's Roller Coaster. 2. Adventureland: This amusement park in Addision, IL this was my favorite growing up. The park was open from 1961 to 1977.
Feb 13, 2014 · By ignoring the action that took place at 1711 E. 95 th Street, history has been missing out on some serious fun. ***** In 1950 Harold “Cookoo” Greenwald, a South Shore entrepreneur, built the park, originally called Kiddy Town, from the ground up.
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- The Midway at The World’S Columbian Exposition of 1893
- Paul Boyton’S Water Chute
- Sans Souci
- Riverview Park
- White City
- Cream City
- Joyland Park
- Kiddieland
- Santa’s Village
- Old Chicago
The Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition paired rides such as the world's first steel Ferris wheel with displays of culture such as the Moorish Palace. Photo: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-002440; C. E. Waterman, photographer It all starts with the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and its bustling Midway, which housed attractions such as t...
Less than a year after the World’s Columbian Exposition closed, its Midway already had an imitator: Paul Boyton’s Water Chute, which opened on July 4, 1894 at 63rd Street and Drexel Avenue, just south of the Midway. It was America’s first modern amusement park, according to the Encyclopedia of Chicago. Whereas earlier recreational parks or pleasure...
Sans Souci was replaced by a short-lived Frank Lloyd Wright project. Photo: DN-0006357, Chicago Daily News collection, Chicago History Museum Chicago had more amusement parks than anywhere else in the country until 1908, according to the Encyclopedia of Chicago, and that’s evident in the explosion of new ones that opened around the turn of the cent...
William Schmidt, the owner of Riverview, looks out over the park in 1967. ST-90004580-0003, Chicago Sun-Times collection, Chicago History Museum The park my father adored is perhaps the best-known in the Chicago area—WTTW even has a whole documentary about it that you can stream. It had such famed rides as the Bobs roller coaster and a tunnel of lo...
White City's "Electric Tower" was 300 feet tall and had 20,000 lightbulbs. Photo: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-070022; Charles R. Clark, photographer Sans Souci’s demise was due in part to the opening of White City nearby, on property that is now Parkway Gardens, where Michelle Obama spent her early life. Opened in 1905, it was a larger park with m...
Cream City in Lyons was short-lived, but the suburb continued to be a place for amusement. Photo: DN-0006805, Chicago Daily News collection, Chicago History Museum This amusement park, opened in 1906 in the western suburb of Lyons, is possibly the shortest-lived in the Chicago area: it burned down after only one year, according to the Village of Ly...
Unlike White City, Joyland Park in Bronzeville not only welcomed Black Chicagoans—it was owned and operated by them. Much smaller than Riverview or White City, at only two acres, it had four rides, according tothe website Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal. It only lasted from 1923 to 1925, and the land it occupied is now part of ...
The Kiddieland sign now stands outside the Melrose Park Library. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/S Jones During the Depression, Arthur Fritz bought ponies to sell rides to children in the western suburbs after he lost his job as a contractor. He eventually established the first Kiddieland in Melrose Park by adding miniature cars, according to Melrose Park...
Believe it or not, the idea of a Christmas-themed amusement park originated in California. Entrepreneur Glenn Holland opened two Santa’s Villages in California in the 1950s (the first predated Disneyland’s opening by six weeks, according tothe Santa’s Village website). He then decided to expand to the Midwest and place a Santa’s Village in East Dun...
Did you know the Chicago area was home to a precursor to the Mall of America? Back in 1975, a mall that contained amusement park rides, a concert venue, and circus performers opened in the southwestern suburb of Bolingbrook. Old Chicago only lasted until 1980, facing competition from Great America as well as a lack of big anchor stores to draw peop...
Illinois alone had well over 140 local amusement parks that are now defunct. I've dedicated many years and countless hours of research to finding the history of these parks and locating pictures. 141 DEFUNCT ILLINOIS AMUSEMENT PARKS. aka: Central Park Gardens, Rockford.
Lost Amusement Parks. WELCOME! This NAPHA Website’s goal is to document approximately 1000 defunct amusement parks in the United States and Canada. While most of the amusement parks were closed long ago, the site will include a few dozen operating parks like Kennywood, Cedar Point and Hershey Park that have had long interesting histories.
Defunct Amusement Parks of Illinois Over 80 defunct Illinois amusement parks: history and photos. Defunct amusement parks; 10¢ A Ticket: The Stories & Glories of Old Amusement Parks, WBGU-PBS documentary about 21 amusement parks located in Northwest Ohio since the 1800s; Abandoned amusement park ruins on moderndayruins.com
