Why did Ebenezer Floppen Slopper’s Wonderful Water slides close?
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Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water Slides is an abandoned waterpark located on a hill near the intersection of Illinois Route 38 (Roosevelt Road) ...
Apparently nobody knows why it closed .
Buried deep in the Wikipedia article is this
However as of December 2018, the park is listed on the website of a law firm specialising in amusement park injuries, which claims: “We have successfully gone up against all major water parks in the United States including, but not limited to [this park]”
I suspect there was an injury claim, and even if it wasn’t that serious and was settled out of court, the insurance companies got spooked and the park couldn’t get coverage.