Wildlife Prairie State Park
Features: Weekly Sunday Brunch
Hours:
Open-daily - May 29th - September 6th (Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend)
General Admission:
April - October - Ages 13 & up $6.50
Ages 4-12 $4.50
Ages 3 & under Free
General Info
In the 1960's Bill heard that the Brookfield Zoo was looking for space to raise exotic endangered animals. Coincidentally, the Forest Park Foundation, a foundation that his family has run since 1939, had acquired 480 acres of land (including abandoned strip mined land) near Peoria with the intention of using it for conservation and environmental purposes.