介绍： The history of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo started 150 years ago with a gracious gift from New York City officials, when the commissioners of the Board of Public Works of the city of Chicago received a gift of two pairs of swans from the commissioners of Central Park in New York City. The gift was actually ar...

介绍： The history of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo started 150 years ago with a gracious gift from New York City officials, when the commissioners of the Board of Public Works of the city of Chicago received a gift of two pairs of swans from the commissioners of Central Park in New York City. The gift was actually arranged by two brothers, a man named Andrew Greene who was quite famous for starting a lot of the famous cultural institutions in New York City, and his brother who was working for the Illinois Michigan canal.
The swans appeared to have brought the zoo good luck. Today their descendants still flowed gracefully in the zoo’s pond, but there’s a lot more to see. Spread across five square kilometers, the Lincoln Park Zoo boasts a spacious pool with sea lions, big for the Lions, for predators and giant spaces for herbivores. With more than 200 different species of animals on display, it’s a popular attraction that draws about three million visitors each year.