Palatine skating rink, largest in Midwest, to close after 46 years

At the Orbit Skate Center Palatine, everything seems to be moving from discos to countless roller skate wheels, skaters themselves, and regular customers with advanced technology to other rusty people.

Owner Sandra Levin stated that ice rink is a victim of high maintenance costs and property taxes

Levin said: "I can open it even if I can move this skate link to a distance of 5 miles from the lake or cane."

But after a couple of weeks, Cook County loses another skate link and the truck will be the largest in the Midwest.

Pamela Pace has been here since opening in 1972.

"We know that we have made three generations of memories.We have a birthday party, a fundraising party.We are collecting money for everything from AIDS to homeless," Levin I said.

On the last day of orbit, on March 31 they began to rest at seven, and skateboards can stay at the time they want.

Sk8 Mafia's founder, 27-year-old Travis Horne, has a skate party in various places near Los Angeles. At the age of seven he began roller skating after seeing his brother at the skate depot which he closed now in Cerritos. He established Sk8 Mafia in 2010 as a way to spread his passion and enthusiasm for skating as widely as possible. The roller skating community has developed since the original wheel world was opened in the 1980s, but it is still very close, especially for those who have skated for years. The revival of ice skating rink has become the center of culture of Midtown, no matter what happens in the outside world. It still brings music, friends and skate generation together

Ultra cool thing that happened today, my daughter joined the birthday party and joined the ice rink link. When I was a child skate was once my favorite. I think that I have never been to ice rink since I was 15 years old. It was wonderful, I completely forgot about how wonderful these places are. You may need to visit more frequently

However, this is not necessarily the case. "Skate King is my place, I stayed there for the third consecutive year," Paytonbow, a high school graduate who explained the currently closed Bellevue Ice Rink, said. Ice skating rink has been closed for one year (the site is currently home to Harley Davidson dealers), and some students gathered to hear that the impact and frustration of their local ice rink link has disappeared It was. "Wait, have you no longer skate king?" Bryce Pierrage of the freshman cried, she said once she was good at skating, a few years passed. Other people have expressed the same view. Skating is important because skating is fun because skating is fun. But now, it's just a memory

1911: Canada's first artificial ice rink is open. People quickly began sliding counterclockwise around the edge. It is in 1805 West Georgia in the corner of Denman Street. It was the world's largest indoor ice rink at that time. Vancouver Millionaire is the first hockey team in the city and consists of players from the National Hockey League. The University of British Columbia (UBC) has opened. Several sleepy students appeared. Approximately 60,000 students currently enrolled in the university. UBC has opened a temporary headquarters at McGill University College (Fairview "Hut" nickname, behind the surrounding community) near Vancouver General Hospital.