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The third largest Illinois arena after the United Center in Chicago and the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, State Farm Center has 15,544 permanent seats but, when portable chairs are placed on the floor for an in-the-round performance, there is a potential for an additional 1,000 depending on the stage configuration.
The construction of State Farm Center, originally known as the Assembly Hall, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign consisted of building a huge indoor arena with a 400-foot-diameter (120 m) concrete dome whose center height is 125 feet (38 m) above the center floor, and which weighs 10 million pounds. [1]
HPE Basketball Arena/Wildcat Arena Fort Valley: Georgia: Fort Valley State Wildcats: SIAC: 5,000 [14] N/A Tiger Arena: Savannah: Georgia: Savannah State Tigers and Lady Tigers: SIAC: 5,000 2000 Daniel "Chappie" James Center Tuskegee: Alabama: Tuskegee Golden Tigers: SIAC: 5,000 1987 [15] Joseph J. Gentile Arena: Chicago: Illinois: Loyola (IL ...
Philips Arena (now State Farm Arena) was constructed in its place, and opened on September 18, 1999. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The demolition of the Omni forced the Hawks to split their home games for the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons between the Alexander Memorial Coliseum at Georgia Tech (their first home in Atlanta), and the Georgia Dome .
Both the Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Bulls play their home games at the arena with some of them on back-to-back nights. In the 2023-2024 edition of the NBA, the Bulls drew an average attendance of 20,624 in 41 home games, the highest in the NBA. [ 14 ]
The State Farm jingle ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there") was written by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow in 1971. A cover was released by Weezer in 2011. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] State Farm's first commercial jingle was created for The Jack Benny Program in the 1960s.
Allstate Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Rosemont, Illinois, United States, northwest of Chicago, located at the corner of Mannheim Road and Lunt Avenue, just north of Mannheim Road's interchange with the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of O'Hare International Airport.
State Farm Arena after renovations during a 2019 Hawks game vs the Chicago Bulls Shortly after acquiring the Hawks and the operating rights to Philips Arena on June 24, 2015, Tony Ressler announced his intentions of remodeling the arena to keep the Hawks in Downtown Atlanta at a cost between $150 million and $250 million.