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Other animals were soon donated to the park, including, a puma, two elk, three wolves, four eagles, and eight peacock. [14] In 1874, a bear cub from the Philadelphia Zoo was the first animal purchased by the zoo, for US$10. [15] The bear became quite adept at escaping from its home and could frequently be found roaming Lincoln Park at night. [16]
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Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago.Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Brookfield Zoo Chicago, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, [2] [3] is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois.It houses around 450 species of animals in an area of 216 acres (87 ha).
Tickets start at $29.95 for adults.
The Wilds | Cumberland, Ohio. The Wilds calls its Open-Air Safari its "most popular experience." For $150 per person, guides will drive visitors in an open vehicle through ranges to view rhinos ...
Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, [1] [2] to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the DuSable Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. [3]
In 1921, the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown Chicago. [31] By the late 1930s the Field Museum had emerged as one of the three premier museums in the United States, the other two being the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the ...