LOST AMUSEMENT PARKS

ILLINOIS - AMUSEMENT PARKS

• Adventureland Park - Addison, ILL - (1961 - 1977)
• Al Fresco Park - Peoria, ILL – (1906 - 1946) [Closed because of problems with river flooding]
• Central Park Gardens – Rockford, ILL  -  (1905 - 1928)
• Chutes Park / Paul Boyton's Chutes Park – Chicago, ILL - (1894 - 1897)
• Cream City Park - Lyons, ILL - (1907 - 1908) [Park burned]
• Credit Island / Suburban Island - East Moline, ILL - (1903 - 1918) (Nothing Known)
• Dellwood Park – Joliet, ILL  - (1906 - 1930) (Nothing Known)
• Dreamland Park – Decatur, ILL –    MAP  (1905 - 1912?) [Financially unsucessful]
• Electric Park - DeKalb, ILL - (1906 - 1912) (Nothing known)
• Electric Park - Kankakee, ILL - (1894 - 1934)
• Electric Park – Plainfield, ILL – (1904 - 1932) (Nothing Known)
• Exposition Amusement Shelter - Peoria, ILL - (1926 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Exposition Park – Aurora, ILL  -  (Nothing Known)
• Fairyland Park - Lyons, ILL - (1938 - 1978)
• Forest Park – Chicago, ILL – (1907 - 1922) [Owners could afford to rebuild partially destroyed park after 1918 fire - park became unprofitable]
• Fox River Park / Riverview Park – Aurora, ILL  -  (1899 - 1943?)
• Freeport Park – Freeport, ILL  -  (Nothing Known)
• Galesburg Kiddie Park - Galesburg, ILL - (mid 1950s - 1972) [Rising expenses closed park]
• Harlem Park – Rockford, ILL  - (1890 - 1928)
• Highland Park – Quincey, ILL -  (Nothing Known)
• Highland Park Kiddieland - Galesburg, ILL - (1950s - 1960s) (Nothing Known)
• Hillcrest Park – Lemont / Melrose Park, ILL – (1952 - 2003)  
• Hollywood Kiddieland - Chicago, ILL -
• Joyland Park - Chicago, ILL - (1923 - 1925) (Blacks only)
• Kiddieland - Melrose Park - ILL - (1929 - 2009)
• Kiddieland Park - Rockford, ILL - (1950 - 1962) [City closed park]
• Landsdowne Park – East St. Louis, ILL - (1901 - 1912? )  (Nothing Known) [Fire destroyed park]
• Luna Park – Chicago, ILL – (1907-1911)
• Old Chicago - Bolingbrook, ILL - (1975 - 1980) [Indoor park couldn't compete with the new Six Flags Great America nearby.]
• Mackinaw Dells Park - Congerville, ILL - (1932 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Mineral Springs - Sterling, ILL - (Nothing Known)
• Moline's Prospect Park - Moline, ILL - (1911 - ? )(Nothing Known)
• Palace Gardens - Peoria, ILL (1930 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Peterson Park – Mattoon, ILL  -  (mid 1950s) (Nothing Known)
• Playland Park – Justice, ILL – ( ? - 1979) [Kiddie park closed when state bought property to expand highway]
• Playland Amusement Park - Willow Springs / Chicago, ILL -
• Priester’s Park / White City – Belleville, ILL  -  (Blacks only)  (Nothing Known)
• Prospect Park - Moline, ILL - (1904 - ? ) (Nothing known)
• Riverside Park – Havana, ILL  -  (Nothing Known)
• Riverview Park – Chicago, ILL – (1904 - 1967)  MAP[Profits declined with rising operating costs & land became too valuable for owners not to sell]
• Rockford City Traction Park  / Central Park – Rockford, ILL –  MAP 
• Sans Souci Park – Chicago, ILL – (1899 - 1913) [New owners demolished rides to replace amusement park with a planned summer concert garden]
• Trout Park - Elgin, ILL - (1909 - 1922)
• Vandalia Park – Vandalia, ILL  -  (Nothing Known)
• Watch Tower Park / Black Hawk’s Park – Hinsdale / Rock Island, ILL  - (1882 - 1927) [Automobile ownership deprived company of trolley revenue]
• Webster Park - La Salle, ILL (1908?) (Nothing Known)
• West End Park - Champaign, ILL - (1894 - ? )
• White City – Chicago, ILL - (1905- 1939) MAP [Bankruptcy in 1933, but put in receivership until city condemned park in 1939]
• White City – Centralia, ILL  - (1907 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• White City - Herrin, ILL - (1924 - 1930s ) [Bankruptcy during Depression, but ballroom operated until 1956]
• White City - Springfield, ILL - (1906 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Wonderland Park – Danville, ILL  - (1903? - ) (Nothing Known)
• Zoo Park - Springfield, ILL - (1910 - ?) (Nothing Known)