Coming soon to the Eisenhower Public Library in Harwood HeightsIllinois! "Kiddieland Memories"! Saturday, May 12th from 1:00 until3:00 PM in the upstairs meeting room! Hosted by Eddie K from the internet site "Eddie's Railfan Page" !http://eddiesrailroad.blogspot.com

Kiddieland Amusement Park. ( Gone.) Melrose Park Illinois USA. July 2006., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.

The Eisenhower Public Library located at 4613 North Oketo Avenue in Harwood Heights Illinois, welcomes local Chicago historian and photographer Edward Kwiatkowski to the library on Saturday, May 12th from 1:00 until 3:00 PM.

Eddie will be hosting a multi media slideshow presentation and lecture show, about Chicago's Kiddieland Amusement Park in Melrose Park Illinois, that had closed in 2009 after 81 years of operation.

Aside from the photos and videos clips of Kiddieland, Eddie will also be showing photos of several other local Chicago area amsuement parks from the past that had closed for good many years ago as well.

If You could remember visiting fun summertime places with Your family like Riverview Park in Chicago, Adventureland in Addison Illinois, Playland Park in Justice Illinois, Dispensa's Kiddie Kingdom in Oak Brook Terrace, or any number of other parks like this from Chicago's past, then You won't wan't to miss this fun family oriented presentation. Admission is free.

This will be a fun event, and we hope to see You there!