This Roller Coaster is a Raging Bull

       Chicago - With the ancient art of bull-taming as a theme, a practice that has been around for thousands of years, and is still used today, Raging Bull is named after a fictious ferocious bull-beast that terrorized citizens of the old Southwest Territory.  The states that are now South of the Ohio River were commonly known as the Southwest Territory, in the late 1790s.  Legend has it that the citizens of this area fled the main town and built a courtyard and mission elsewhere.   Raging Bull allows riders to experience the tough rodeo ride of the legendary Southwest Territories.    
     When it opened in 1999 Raging Bull was the first hyper-twister roller coaster in the United States.  A hyper-coaster is a roller coaster that has extreme height, hyper-coasters usually start at approximately 200 feet tall.  The land now being used by Raging Bull was formerly used by Rolling Thunder, a bobsled which had been relocated from Six Flags Great Adventure (New Jersey) in 1990, and was removed from Six Flags Great America (Illinois) in 1996, to make room for the Southwest Territory, which Raging Bull is a flagship attraction of.  The bobsled Rolling Thunder is now Alpine Bobsled at Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom, in Queensbury, New York.  The Southwest Territory at Six Flags Great America (Illinois) is, Raging Bull (opened 1999), Giant Drop (opened 1997), and Viper (opened 1995).  Viper is a Coney Island Cyclone-styled wooden roller coaster.   With a maximum height of 208 feet, Raging Bull is the tallest coaster at Six Flags Great America (Illinois), an the maximum drop is 202 feet, with a maximum drop angle of 65 degrees.  Raging Bull includes a lot of space-age weightlessness, that results from, Raging Bulls, air-time hills ( a series of small hills that result in feelings of weightlessness by Raging Bull riders).  Raging Bull has speeds of up to 73 mph and has a helix (corkscrew turn) that feels like a bull trying to shake riders off of it.  Raging Bull is 5,057 feet (1541.4 meters) long.  See also, www.greatamericaparks.com.