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The State Farm Center is a large dome-shaped 15,544-seat indoor arena located in Champaign, Illinois, owned and operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The arena hosts games for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball , women's basketball , and wrestling teams.
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]
Illinois State Fair Grandstand: 13,000 2000s Illinois State Fair Multipurpose Arena 10,000 1901 Illinois State Fair Coliseum 2,778 unknown Decatur Civic Center Decatur: 3,200 May 29, 2019 Devon Lakeside Amphitheatre 3,000 1964 Banterra Center: Carbondale: 9,244 1918 Shryrock Auditorium 1,200 1990 Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre: Tinley Park: 28,000 ...
The Virginia Theatre hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year. Classic films play on the 56-foot-wide screen several nights every month. The theatre is also a popular venue for touring musical acts and comedians. From 1992 until 2010, the Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, or CUTC, performed plays at the theatre.
All 16 Illinois High School Association boys basketball state finalists will play March 7-9, 2024 at State Farm Center on the campus of the University of Illinois in Champaign. Tickets to the ...
Unfortunately the state legislature only authorized $100,000 which necessitated Blackall making some drastic changes in his design, which originally called for an auditorium that would cover 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2), have a copper dome with a smaller glass oculus, and 2,500 seats, [2] as well as a south wing which would be the home for ...
The Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, also known as Champaign–Urbana and Urbana–Champaign as well as Chambana (colloquially), is a metropolitan area in east-central Illinois. As defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the metropolitan area has a population of 235,608 as of the 2023 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, which ranks ...
Huff Hall is a 4,050-seat multi-purpose arena in Champaign, Illinois, United States. The arena opened in 1925 and was known as Huff Gymnasium until the 1990s. It is named after George Huff, who was the school's athletic director from 1895 to 1935. Huff Hall is home to the University of Illinois Fighting Illini volleyball and wrestling teams.