Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo

2001 N Clark St
Chicago
IL 60614

USA

Open minimum 10am-4.30pm, closed 25th december

Entrance fee

• Adult 0 dollars
• Child 0 Dollars

Annual card (including shows and special exhibitions)

• Adult 69 dollars
• Family* 95 dollars

*Family cards are valid for all people living in the same house hold

There are several daily feeding shows, for the time please ask at the till station.


Chronic

• 1868 The first residens of Lincoln Park is a couple of mute swans, a gift from Central Park in New York. This is the beginning of the Zoo
• 1874 A bear is bought from Philadelphia zoo, this is the first animal bought
• 1879 A bear pit is build, after opening the bear escapes every now and then
• 1884 The worlds first zooborn bison is born at the zoo
• 1888 Cyrus DeVry is hired as the zoos first director
• 1889 The sea lion pool and small mammal house opens. 18 Sea lions take a night on the town, 17 returning - the last going to Lake Michigan
• 1895 An eagle exhibit opens
• 1899 The Landmark cafe opens
• 1904 The bird house opens
• 1908 Cafe Brauer opens
• 1919 Alfred E Parker becomes the zoos 2nd director
• 1923 The zoos first aquarium opens 
• 1927 The primate house opens
• 1930 The fish move to Shedd's Aquarium, and the aquarium building is turned in to a reptile house
• 1931 Floyd S Young becomes the zoos 3rd director. The gorilla Bushman arrives
• 1932 Becourse of the great depression the zoo gets several animals fron closing circus's
• 1933 The zoo becomes a part of Chicago Park district
• 1943 The elephant Judy arrives from Brookfield zoo
• 1944 Marlin Perkins becomes the zoos 4th director
• 1947 Lester E Fisher becomes the zoos first Veterinarian
• 1949-57 The program Zoo Parade is broadcastet from the Zoo weekly national wide
• 1959 A children zoo opens (the first in the USA), the Licoln Park Zoological Society is formed
• 1962 Lester E Fisher the zoos 5th director
• 1963 the bird house is renovated and gets its first free flight aviary. Membership to the zoo can be bought from this year
• 1964 The zoo farm opens
• 1970 The first gorilla, Kumba, is born at the zoo. The zoos volunteer program is founded
• 1976 The Kroc  Animal Hospital and the ape house opens
• 1977 the zoos education department is established
• 1978 The waterfowl lagoon and flamingo dome open
• 1979 The Crown-Field Center opens
• 1981 The Blum-Knovler penguin and seabird house opens
• 1982 The Antelope and Zebra area opens, so does the Regestein large mammal house and the Robert T McCornnick Bear and Wolf habitat
• 1988 The Landmark cafe and the childrens zoo are renovated
• 1989 The Regensteins Birds of prey exhibit opens
• 1990 The Brauer cafe and the lion house are renovated.  The zoo establishes a conservation and science department
• 1991 The bird house is renovated
• 1992 David Hales is the zood 6th director. The primate house is renovated
• 1993 Kevin J Bell becomes the zoos 7th director
• 1995 The Zoo society takes over the management from Chicago Park district. The Gateway pavillion opens
• 1996 The zoo gets a homepage
• 1997 The Regenstein small mammal-reptile house opens. The waterfowl lagoon is renovated
• 1998 The Park pavillion opens. The conversation center and C.H. "Doc" Searle MD nimal hospital is completed
• 1999 Te sea lion pool is renovated. 
• 2002 The zoo farm is renovated African Journey opens. The flamingo habitat is renovated
• 2004 Regensteins center for African apes opens
• 2005 The childrens zoo is renovated
• 2014 The Japanese macaque enclosure opens
• 2016 The Robert and Mayari Pritzker Penguin Cove opens as well as the Walter family arctic tundra for polar bears. The Kovler Lion House was closed for renovation