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Illinois Field

Illinois Field is a stadium in Champaign, Illinois. It seats a stated 17,000. Here is what the public record holds on it, and what an event67 rollout would cost in a room this size.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
17,000
people, as published
Opened
1884
142 years old
From CMI
10 km (6.2 mi)
University of Illinois Willard Airport
From the centre
1.3 km (0.8 mi)
of Champaign

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

What Illinois Field is

It sits in Champaign, right in the centre of Champaign.

Illinois Field was opened in 1884 and operated by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which puts it at 142 years old.

17,000 seats is arena scale, so it works as a plenary room with breakouts hosted nearby.

Operator
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Owner
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Coordinates
40.1160, -88.2285
Classified as
stadium

Getting there

University of Illinois Willard Airport (CMI) is 10 km (6.2 mi) out, a standard transfer of twenty to forty minutes outside rush hour.

A central address is worth more than it looks: no shuttle, no parking plan, and evening sessions that people actually stay for.

Champaign has 28 venues mapped in total and a population of 91,961. The Champaign guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Formats this suits

A room this size is a plenary and nothing else. Keynotes, awards and general sessions work; the breakouts, the exhibition and the catering all have to happen somewhere else, so the venue is really the anchor of a campus rather than the whole event.

  • award ceremonies

    A stage, a bowl of seats and a control room already in place.

  • festivals

    An audience of 17,000 is festival scale, not conference scale.

  • company all-hands

    One room, everybody in it, nobody watching on a screen in an overflow space.

Pricing a full house here

A Illinois Field programme at 950 activated attendees — sized to the stated capacity of Illinois Field — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.

activated attendees
950activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
900billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$4,500for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at Illinois Field, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Nearby alternatives

4 other venues in Champaign have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 7 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, operator, owner, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance.

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What it costs

Free up to 50
activated attendees, on one live event
$5
per activated attendee beyond 50
$4,750
the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000

Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

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Questions people actually ask

How many people does Illinois Field hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 17,000 for Illinois Field. That figure is what the venue or an encyclopaedia entry published, and it is usually the maximum seated number — theatre, banquet and reception layouts in the same room can differ by half. Confirm the layout you want directly with the venue.

What does an event app cost for an event at Illinois Field?

950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. That example is sized to the stated capacity of Illinois Field. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

Is event67 affiliated with Illinois Field?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if Illinois Field is booked?

Gies Memorial Stadium (55,524), New Gymnasium (3,800) and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts are in the same city and have their own pages here. 28 venues in total are mapped in Champaign.

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