The Jam 1980-03-07
Old Chicago, Bolingbrook, IL
Set 1
Saturday's Kids
Burning Sky
Thick As Thieves
It's Too Bad
Going Underground
Mr. Clean
The Butterfly Collector
Private Hell
Little Boy Soldiers
Smithers-Jones
The Dreams Of Children
To Be Someone
Strange Town
When You're Young
The Eton Rifles
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Girl On The Phone
All Mod Cons
David Watts
Burning Sky
Thick As Thieves
It's Too Bad
Going Underground
Mr. Clean
The Butterfly Collector
Private Hell
Little Boy Soldiers
Smithers-Jones
The Dreams Of Children
To Be Someone
Strange Town
When You're Young
The Eton Rifles
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Girl On The Phone
All Mod Cons
David Watts
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
Old Chicago was a combination shopping mall and indoor amusement park that existed in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois, from 1975 until 1980. It was billed as "The world's first indoor amusement park," and it was intended to draw visitors all year round, rain or shine. It opened to great fanfare and over 15,000 visitors on June 17 1975 with an enormous building that housed major rides, such as a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel, as well as a turn-of-the-century themed shopping mall. Only six months after opening, however, the complex ran into financial troubles due to construction cost overruns. The opening of a competing amusement park in the same general region hurt attendance, and the lack of large anchor stores failed to draw enough local and repeat shoppers. Despite management changes, the center continued to lose money. By 1978, the mall began closing on Mondays and Tuesdays and in early 1980 the entire amusement park shut down and the rides were sold, only five years after opening. Efforts to find alternative uses for the huge building failed, and the structure was demolished in the spring of 1986.
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