I noticed there were 210 hits on my amusement park query, and felt bad that I was asking for info instead of providing it. Here is a copy of the article I wrote that was published Friday in the Joliet Herald News, Aurora Beacon News, Elgin Courier News and the Naperville Sun. It is focused soley on those parks that were the most recent to close. Adventureland is mentioned only peripherally beca
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I am a newspaper reporter looking to interview folks from the Aurora, Joliet, Naperville or Aurora areas about their memories of these defunct amusement parks as a tie-in to the closing of Kiddieland in Melrose Park. My general interest is why these places remain so nostalgic for those who went there as children, what it means that the last one will soon be gone, did Great America play a role i
Forum: General Discussion