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By Arthur Levine, About.com Guide to Theme Parks since 2002

World's Largest Indoor Water Park on Tap for Illinois

Thursday August 21, 2003
The indoor water park craze shows no signs of letting up. What will purportedly be the largest of the year-round splash palaces is taking shape in Harvard, Illinois at a former Motorola plant. According to the Rockford (IL) Register Star, the water park will occupy a 355,000-square-foot facility which would be more than double the size of the Wisconsin Dells' Wilderness Resort, the current indoor water park size record-holder. The project has a reported $10 million budget, which is quite large for water parks. NGBS, the folks behind Texas' popular Schlitterbahn parks and one of the industry's leading manufacturers, will be building the rides and slides.
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August 17, 2006 at 9:07 am
(1) Robert Rolleston says:

Does anyoune know if this project ever started. Visit my web page and contact me if you have any info?

April 19, 2008 at 10:26 pm
(2) Helen says:

Is this water park built? The comment about it is from 2003 - 5 years ago.

April 20, 2008 at 11:29 am
(3) themeparks says:

Helen, thanks for writing. No, like many proposed projects, this water park was never built.

-Arthur

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