Doug Knight's family has owned Springfield amusement park Knight's Action Park since 1930, himself for 43 of those years.
The pandemic was a bear — Knight fought to keep his doors open, and when they closed for COVID-19, he pushed to reopen as soon as possible. Inflation, too, has been an obstacle. From inflatable inner tubes to chlorine for the pools, prices have risen for “everything we buy," and now a new Illinois law represents “another bump on the road” for business owners, he says.
