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Brookfield (formerly Grossdale) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located 13 miles (21 km) west of downtown Chicago. Per the 2020 census , the population was 19,476. [ 2 ] The city is home to the Brookfield Zoo .
Ziggy (c. 1917 – October 27, 1975) [1] was a male Indian elephant who lived at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago from 1936 to 1975. He weighed about six tons and was over ten feet tall. [ 2 ] After attacking and nearly killing his keeper in 1941, Ziggy was chained to the wall of an indoor enclosure, and remained there for nearly three decades.
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Illinois: A History Of The Land And Its People. Buck, Solon J. (1917). Illinois in 1818. The Centennial History of Illinois a famous series by leading scholars; the copyright has expired and the books are in the public domain vol. 1. The Illinois Country 1673–1818 by Clarence Walworth Alvord. (1920) online edition; vol. 2.
Brookfield Zoo Chicago, known until 2024 as simply Brookfield Zoo, and also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, [2] [3] is a zoo located in Brookfield, Illinois.Brookfield Zoo is owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and is managed by the Chicago Zoological Society.
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Parameters The Brookfield Enterprise was a weekly community newspaper based out of the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois.The newspaper, under the ownership of Elmer C. Johnson, would go on to be merged with three other local newspapers (The Lyons Times, Summit Valley Times, & Clear Ridge Times) and be known under the masthead of The Times.