Six Flags Great America brings new thrills to Fright Fest
September 21, 2012
GURNEE, Ill. – Six Flags Great America kicks off its 22nd season of Fright Fest with new haunts and more scares than ever before.
GURNEE, Ill. – Six Flags Great America kicks off its 22nd season of Fright Fest with new haunts and more scares than ever before.
Starting September 29 and running weekends throughout October, the theme park transforms into a 100-acre, fog-filled land of shadows, ghosts and ghouls that offers thrills by day and fright by night. Fright Fest, the area’s premier Halloween event, returns this season with five haunted attractions, eight horrific scare zones, eight hair-raising shows and nearly 200 monsters throughout the park. Guests can also enjoy all of their favorite rides with an eerie makeover.
Courtesy photo/Hurricane Harbor Chicago
Thrill-seekers can finally feel that adrenaline rush they’ve been waiting for this summer as water parks begin reopening across Illinois.
Six Flags Great America’s Hurricane Harbor locations in Gurnee and Rockford and Santa’s Village water park Santa Springs will reopen Saturday.
“Memorial Weekend is always the unofficial start of summer here at Six Flags, and we’re so excited to have some splash and some fun,” said Caitlin Kepple, Six Flags’ communications and marketing manager.
This marks the first time
Hurricane Harbor Chicago in Gurnee will operate separately from the Six Flags theme park next door making it the company’s 27th park, with three in Illinois.
Looking to score free tickets to Six Flags? A new incentive from Gov. J.B. Pritzker will give passes to Illinois residents who get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Six Flags is hoping to entice more people to get vaccinated with free tickets to Great America. (Peggy Bayard/Patch)
ILLINOIS Free Six Flags Great America tickets will be doled out to Illinois residents who receive their vaccine in the coming weeks, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday. Six Flags officials will donate 50,000 tickets valued at $4 million.
The amusement park will host a state vaccination clinic on June 5 and 6 where thousands of free tickets will be handed out, the governor said. Six Flags will also donate thousands of tickets to health departments across the state to be used at their discretion to encourage local residents to get their shots.