Illinois Field (1884)

Illinois Field
Location	Champaign, Illinois
Owner	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Operator	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Capacity	17,000
Opened	1884
Closed	1987
Tenants
	Illinois Fighting Illini baseball (1884–1987); Illinois Fighting Illini football (1890–1922); Big Ten Baseball Tournament (1982)

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.^[1]

Events[]

The field hosted the 1982 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament, won by Minnesota.^[2]

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-26. Retrieved 2012-01-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book" (PDF). p. 107. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012.

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Venues	Illinois Field (original) (1884–1987) Illinois Field (1988–present)
People
	1882 2018