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Vol. 39, No. 30
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July 24, 2024
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Bold Brookfield Zoo plan reinvents visitor experience The zoo will ‘reshape’ 113 acres of land to highlight new, immersive habitats and its conservation efforts By TRENT BROWN Staff Reporter
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With 90 years of history behind it, Brookfield Zoo Chicago is looking to the future — with a plan to redevelop hundreds of acres of property and expand westward. As part of it ambitious “Next Century Plan,” announced last week, the organization intends to spend $500 million over the next 15 years to create a plan that upends the traditional zoo experience. The biggest change comes to the western side of the zoo’s campus, which will become the home of its new “immersive ecoregions.” Unlike a traditional zoo experience, where guests see animals in habitats organized by species, Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s ecoregion habitats will bring together animal species that live together in the wild, replicating their natural environment and allowing guests to see how wild ecosystems function. The ecoregions, which will take up a majority of the
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