Illinois Field - Champaign, Illinois

Year Opened
1988

Current Team
None

Affiliate
N/A

League
N/A

Capacity
3000

Location
Location Map

My Grades
Stadium NG
Atmosphere NG
Concessions NG

Photos taken in 2003

Ballpark Photo

Illinois Field is home to the University of Illinois' baseball team, but for one year it also hosted professional baseball. In 1994, the Great Central League's Champaign-Urbana Bandits called this park home. Since lights weren't installed until 1999, the team must have played all their games during the day - which is probably one of the many reasons that the league wasn't back for a second season. The park also underwent other renovations before the 1999 season, so it's unclear as to what this ballpark actually looked like when the Bandits played here. Even now, Illinois Field is a very basic college ballpark. If anyone attended a Bandits game here in '94, I'd enjoy hearing from them.