Old Chicago
Bolingbrook, Illinois
Reader Contributions
Page Three

I'm certain there are thousands of similar photos like this one as everyone who visited Old Chicago had to go and climb on top of the lions out front. This photo is from Valerie who is second from left in this photo. I'm not certain but I hear that Old Chicago's lions live on at some car dealership in the Chicago area. If anyone has any information on their whereabouts I'd love to know where they are so please email me.

Trey Smith sent me this interesting folder from Old Chicago.

Trey's father was the manager of Old Chicago and this is the packet of information that the park would send to schools to encourage field trips. The folder is full of lesson plans for students from pre-school through high school.

Although most of the lesson plans are geared towards math and physics in higher grades there are a few pages in here geared to other subjects.

 

According to the pamphlet letting kids run around Old Chicago's Fun Factory was the perfect setting to work on "motor coordination, developmental and movement education and language development".

An interesting note is that the Eagles Nest climbing nets pictured above reach forty feet above the floor. Just looking at it there's no way a park would have something like this today's litigious society as with no railings or side nets it'd be pretty easy for someone to take a tumble onto the floor below. Yeah the floor was padded but not enough for a tumble of forty feet.    

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to these pages. If you have a photo, video or some memorabilia (or photo of) please email me as I'd love to add it here.

 


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