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UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > Old Chicago Amusement Park (Viewed 504 times) Walking Talking Poison  Location: Big Island, Hawaii Gender: Female  |  |  Old Chicago Amusement Park < on 1/6/2006 5:19 PM >   I frequented this place quite a bit as a kid. It was the first ever indoor amusement park/mall/eatery and I loved it. I snapped this picture from a bus I was in at about age 14? I had completely forgotten about it but when I saw the sign and those replica lions a rush of memories came flooding back. Unfortunately the place would be torn down before I ever got to go back and try to explore. I was just wondering if anyone had made it in and got any pictures, or knows any sites of someone that did. I did find a nice site with some great history info located here,http://www.negative-g.com/OldChicago/OCEnd4.html But thats about it. Had to come back and add something, is it just me, or does it seem that every other place thtat tried this formula of an amusement park/mall. entertainment/eatery had sucess? Mall of America, etc etc..... [last edit 1/6/2006 8:56 PM by Walking Talking Poison - edited 1 times] <.·´¯`·.WªLkïng¯|¯ªLkïngPoïsØN ¸.·´¯`·.¸> NV  Supreme Noble Donor Location: City of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, Mayor  |  Re: Old Chicago Amusement Park <Reply # 1 on 1/6/2006 10:10 PM >   It's not much, but: http://www.defunct...ago/oldchicago.htm I'm sure there's more out there if you look harder than I did. I remember going there once as a kid (I must have been nine years old at the time), looking down at the indoor roller coaster from a balcony, and thinking "This is a very weird place." For some reason that image has stuck with me all of these years. cringe  Location: Chicago, Illinois Gender: Male RAINBOW PARTY. MORBID AS F#!K.  |  |  |  Re: Old Chicago Amusement Park <Reply # 2 on 1/7/2006 3:54 AM >   Whoa. That place looked very promising, both active and abandoned Another one of those buildings I wish I'd known about prior to its demise... :\ NAY, sir! Walking Talking Poison  Location: Big Island, Hawaii Gender: Female  |  |  Re: Old Chicago Amusement Park <Reply # 3 on 1/9/2006 12:42 AM >   Well duh me, haha didnt read all of that stuff on the history page well enough. I guess it was used when it was abandoned for the movie The Fury. Went to blockbuster tonight but they didnt have it. I know it wont be the same as exploring it. But this ones a little different for me since I used to go there all the time as a kid. Id love to see it again! <.·´¯`·.WªLkïng¯|¯ªLkïngPoïsØN ¸.·´¯`·.¸> Asylunt  Location: MPLS Gender: Male The Friendly Beer!  |  |  |  Re: Old Chicago Amusement Park <Reply # 4 on 1/9/2006 8:24 AM >   That's cool, I know how that feeling goes Poison, I got into all of this exploring stuff through my love of Amusement Parks, and tracking down places I had been as a kid in the KC area. I guess you could say that www.defunctparks.com was my first UE site, even before Actionsquad.org. I'll have to check out the Fury as well. Asylunt "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain Chuck  Location: Chicago Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Old Chicago Amusement Park <Reply # 5 on 1/10/2006 4:16 PM >   Posted by Walking Talking Poison Had to come back and add something, is it just me, or does it seem that every other place thtat tried this formula of an amusement park/mall. entertainment/eatery had sucess? Mall of America, etc etc..... Old Chicago was just way ahead of it's time. But beyond that, it had no major anchors and no direct access from I-55. Also, and most importantly, it was out in the middle of nowhere!! Chuck Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. - Clint Eastwood UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > Old Chicago Amusement Park (Viewed 504 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 140 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 738888931 pages have been generated.