Wheaton, Illinois, USA. Children climbing on military tanks at Cantigny Park.
Children climbing on military tanks at Cantigny Park. The tanks are a big attraction for kids at Cantigny as all the tanks are available for climbing and play. Cantigny, named for a French village that was the scene of a World War I battle, is a 500-acre public access park featuring retired Army tanks and a modern museum dedicated to the Army's First Division. The park came to be when Col. Robert McCormick, who served in World War I and saw action at the Battle of Cantigny, After returning home, he renamed his estate in honor of the battle and eventually when he died he left his fortune to establish the McCormick Charitable Trust (now the McCormick Foundation) and directeddirected that Cantigny should be transformed into a park for the use of the general public.
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Location: Wheaton, Illinois, USA
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