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Six Flags Great America is a Six Flags theme park in the Chicago metropolitan area, located in Gurnee, Illinois. It first opened in 1976 as Marriott's Great America. Six Flags purchased the park from the Marriott Corporation in 1984, making it the seventh park in the chain.[1] The park has nine themed sections, a 20-acre (81,000 m2) water park called Hurricane Harbor Chicago, two specially themed children's areas, and various other forms of entertainment.

Gurnee Mills is an indoor mall, established in Gurnee, Illinois. It is located about halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a 40 minute drive either way, and near Six Flags Great America. It is a single-level Z-shaped mall. At 1,912,969 square feet (177,720.6 m2) of gross leasable area,[1] it is the third largest mall in Illinois, and is visited by more than 20 million people each year. Gurnee Mills opened on August 8, 1991