Location Champaign, Illinois Closed 1987 | Capacity 17,000 Opened 1884 | |
Operator University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Owner University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Similar Memorial Stadium Champaign, State Farm Center, Staerkel Planetarium, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | ||
Illinois Field was a stadium in Champaign, Illinois. It hosted the Illinois Fighting Illini football team until they moved to the Memorial Stadium in 1923 and the school's baseball team until they moved to the current Illinois Field in 1988. The stadium held 17,000 people at its peak.
Events
The field hosted the 1982 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament, won by Minnesota.
References
Illinois Field (1884) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA