Old Chicago's Legacy
Director Brian De Palma filmed scenes from his 1978 supernatural thriller film The Fury at Old Chicago.
Regarded as a colossal flop, the concept of an amusement park inside a mall proved workable years later at two famous malls—West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Galaxyland), and Mall of America (MOA) in Bloomington, Minnesota (Nickelodeon Universe), as well as Adventuredome at Circus Circus in Las Vegas and Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi. The MOA's amusement park was originally operated by the company who owned Knott's Berry Farm, the amusement park that had inspired Old Chicago.
The now-expanded street where Old Chicago once stood is still named for the mall. Arena Auto Auction's address is 200 Old Chicago Drive. There is no other mention of the former building.
The Chicago Loop roller coaster that stood inside the mall's amusement park is now called the Canobie Corkscrew and operates at Canobie Lake Park. It was the second roller coaster in the world to turn riders upside down twice. Coincidentally, the first was an identical corkscrew model that opened earlier that year at Knott's Berry Farm (that one now resides at Silverwood Theme Park in Idaho).
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