Jack Benny Center for the Arts, Waukegan

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The Jack Benny Center for the Arts, located in Bowen Park, Waukegan, Illinois, is the Cultural Arts Division of the Waukegan Park District. The Center plays host to the Bowen Park Theatre and Opera Company, the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra and Concert Chorus, as well as numerous theatre, dance, and /visual art classes and private music and voice lessons. The center started out as a not-for-profit corporation in 1964. Upon the death of Jack Benny in 1974, the name was changed. The music and fine arts school became part of the Waukegan Park District in 1982 as a division of the recreation department. ()

Coordinates: 42°23'15"N, 87°49'48"W

Address

39 Jack Benny DrWaukegan 60087-5145 United States

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+1 847-360-4740

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Jack Benny Center for the Arts – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Six Flags Great America, Batman: The Ride, Goliath, X-Flight.

5.4 miW
Amusement park with rides for all ages
Six Flags Great America, Gurnee
139 min walk • Six Flags Great America is an amusement park located in Gurnee, Illinois, within the northern Chicago metropolitan area. Originally opened in 1976 by the Marriott Corporation as Marriott's Great America, Six Flags has owned and operated the park since 1984.
5.5 miW
Amusement, Amusement park, Amusement ride
Batman: The Ride, Gurnee
140 min walk • Batman: The Ride is an inverted roller coaster based on the DC Comics character Batman and found at seven Six Flags theme parks in the United States.
5.4 miW
Amusement, Amusement park, Amusement ride
Goliath, Gurnee
137 min walk • Goliath is a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Manufactured by Rocky Mountain Construction and designed by Alan Schilke, the roller coaster features RMC's Topper Track design and opened to the public on June 19, 2014.
5.5 miW
Amusement, Amusement park, Amusement ride
X-Flight, Gurnee
141 min walk • X-Flight is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Designed and built by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride opened as the fourth Wing Coaster in the world and the second in the United States on May 16, 2012.
5.4 miW
Amusement, Amusement park, Amusement ride
Vertical Velocity Roller Coaster, Gurnee
138 min walk • The Flash: Vertical Velocity is an inverted steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Manufactured by Intamin under the trade name "Twisted Impulse Coaster", this launched shuttle-style coaster, located in the DC Universe section of the park, has been operating since May 18, 2001.
5.6 miW
Amusement, Amusement park, Amusement ride
Whizzer Roller Coaster, Gurnee
142 min walk • Whizzer, originally Willard's Whizzer, is an Anton Schwarzkopf Speedracer roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois.
5.5 miW
Amusement, Amusement park, Amusement ride
Little Dipper, Gurnee
140 min walk • Little Dipper is a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It was originally built in 1950 by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters and previously operated at Kiddieland Amusement Park in Melrose Park, Illinois until the park closed in September 2009.
5.5 miW
Amusement, Amusement park, Amusement ride
American Eagle Roller Coaster, Gurnee
141 min walk • American Eagle is a wooden racing roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois. It was the first wooden roller coaster designed by Intamin of Switzerland and was built in 1981 by the contracting firm Figley-Wright at a cost of $10 million.
5.3 miW
Amusement, Amusement park, Amusement ride
Spacely's Sprocket Rockets, Gurnee
137 min walk • Sprocket Rockets is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. This is a junior coaster with a height restriction of only 36 inches. Opened in 1998, it is a Vekoma "roller-skater" model roller coaster.
3 miSW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Belvidere Discount Mall, Waukegan
77 min walk • Belvidere Discount Mall is a small shopping mall located on Belvidere Street in Waukegan, Illinois, United States. It was one of the first shopping malls in the Chicago metropolitan area, and the first enclosed shopping mall in Lake County. Its current main anchor store is a Home Depot.
4.7 miW
Library
Warren-Newport Public Library District, Gurnee
120 min walk • The Warren-Newport Public Library is located at 224 N. O'Plaine Road, Gurnee, Illinois, 60031. The library serves 60,000 people within a 55-square-mile area that covers all or most of Warren Township and Newport Township, Illinois.