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 | Lincoln Park is best known for the Lincoln Park Zoo. A free zoo which is open year-round, the zoo was founded in 1868, when the Lincoln Park Commissioners were given a gift of a pair of swans, which would become the first occupants of the zoo. The swans were joined by a bear cub in 1874, the first animal purchased for the zoo. The bear frequently escaped from its home and could regularly be found roaming Lincoln Park at night. The first bison ever born in captivity was born in Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park Zoo is home to a wide variety of animals. The zoo includes polar bears, penguins, gorillas, reptiles, monkeys, and other species totaling nearly 1,250 animals. Also located in Lincoln Park Zoo is a burr oak tree which dates to 1830, three years before the city was founded. |
| The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, named in honor of of Qwest Communications chairman and chief executive officer Richard Notebaert’s wife, is located in Lincoln Park, walking distance to and from Lincoln Park Zoo. The museum, which opened in October 1999, is located at the intersection of Fullerton Parkway and Cannon Drive. Operated by the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the museum's exhibits include a display about the ecological history of the Illinois region, a live butterfly house, and a green home demonstration. |  |
 | The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry in the basement of a church in Highland Park, Illinois, is a theatre company located in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighboorhood. Illinois. Six years later, in 1980, the theater company moved into a 134-seat theater at the Jane Addams Hull House Center, on N. Broadway Avenue in Chicago proper. In 1982, the company moved to a 211-seat facility at 2851 N. Halsted, which was their home for the next 9 years, when, in 1991, they completed construction on, and moved into their current theater complex at 1650 N. Halsted. Steppenwolf productions helped to launch the careers of a number of well-known American actors, including Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, Joan Allen, John Mahoney, William Petersen, Martha Plimpton and Laurie Metcalf. Other notable theater practitioners who have worked at Steppenwolf include Dan Ostling, Todd Rosenthal, Jonathan Berry, and Joanie Schultz. The company is now headed into its 30th season and has helped make Chicago a leading city in the performing arts. |
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