Friday, May 22, 2009

Kiddieland Is Closing



This summer will be the last season of the Kiddieland amusement park.

Kiddieland closing after 80 years

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Kiddieland, Chicago area's oldest amusement park, to close

Here's a post of mine describing my first visit to Kiddieland.

6 comments:

Marie said...

It's like Coney Island of the Midwest. Sort of. Sorry to hear it's closing.

SamuraiFrog said...

First Santa's Village, now Kiddieland. It's sad to see these institutions go, even though they were nightmare factories for me as a kid. Brrr....

Anonymous said...

Aaagghh! What's next? Coney Island? No wait...NYC is playing hard-ball with developers so there's still a chance....so sorry to see this close down, Splotchy. Kinda like losing a friend...

Anonymous said...

I'm sad that it's closing but I am secretly hoping for a public auctioning-off of the Kiddieland goods. I'd love some of their old signage.

Anonymous said...

I'm sad that it's closing but I am secretly hoping for a public auctioning-off of the Kiddieland goods. I'd love some of their old signage.

BeckEye said...

That sucks. I've never been there, but I hate to hear about the demise of iconic places. I guess nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.