Night time at the Kiddieland Amusement Park. Melrose Park Illinois. Circa 2007. (Closed in 2009. Gone.)

 

For many years especially during the 1950's and 60's, There

were once many small family owned seasonal amusement

parks with carnival rides, game booths and concession stands

in the greater Chicagoland area. Most of them had closed for

good before the end of the 1970's decade.

 

The Kiddieland Amusement Park in Melrose Park Illinois, was the

very last one of it's kind operating in the greater Chicagoland area,

and closed for good on Sunday, September 27th, 2009, after a long

and legal dispute between the various members of the family who

owned the amusement park, and the land it operated on.

 

Here in this photograph, we see the Tilt A Whirl ride, looking

west through the chain link fence, from the east parking lot.