An antique carousel from a now-shuttered Chicago-area amusement park is going up for auction.
Kiddieland, which operated in Melrose Park since 1929, shut down in 2009, after family members who owned the site and the park failed to come to an agreement on a new lease. The family members who owned the lease were looking for a better payday.
Since the announcement, Kiddieland has offered up a number of its attractions for auction.
On Saturday, Donley Auction Service in Union will take bids on the park's historic carousel.
Manufactured in 1925, the carousel is 50-feet in diameter and has 48 hand-carved horses. The auction service says it's expected to sell at more than $1 million.
The carousel isn't the first of the park's more than 30 rides to get new life. The Kiddieland Limited Train has been on loan to a museum in Indiana, and Six Flags Great America bought The Little Dipper, the park's famed wooden roller coaster.
