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Welsh–Ryan Arena

Everything the open record has on Welsh–Ryan Arena, a stadium in Evanston, Illinois — address, size, access and the events it carries. It seats a stated 8,117.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
8,117
people, as published
Opened
1952
74 years old
From ORD
20 km (12 mi)
O'Hare International Airport
From the centre
2.9 km (1.8 mi)
of Evanston

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

What the record holds

It stands at 2705 Ashland Avenue, 60208, 2.9 km (1.8 mi) from the centre of Evanston.

Welsh–Ryan Arena was opened in 1952 and owned by Northwestern University, which puts it at 74 years old.

At a stated 8,117 this takes an entire conference in one room rather than one track of it.

Address
2705 Ashland Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208
Owner
Northwestern University
Coordinates
42.0669, -87.6928
Classified as
stadium

How attendees reach it

Allow half an hour each way to O'Hare International Airport (ORD), 20 km (12 mi) away, and rather more if your first session starts during the morning peak.

At 2.9 km (1.8 mi) from the city centre it is a short ride from downtown hotels rather than a walk.

Evanston has 18 venues mapped in total and a population of 76,006. The Evanston guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Programming it

Anything at this scale is a one-room event. It is the 2nd largest arena or stadium mapped in Evanston, and like all of them it solves the plenary and none of the rest of the programme.

  • award ceremonies

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

  • festivals

    An audience of 8,117 is festival scale, not conference scale.

  • company all-hands

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

What event67 costs at this capacity

Suppose 950 attendees claim their invite and open the app at a Welsh–Ryan Arena event sized to the stated capacity of Welsh–Ryan Arena. Here is exactly what event67 charges, with the free 50 taken off the top.

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 Welsh–Ryan Arena, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Elsewhere in Evanston

4 other venues in Evanston 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. 9 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: street address, postal code, stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, owner, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance and more.

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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 Welsh–Ryan Arena hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 8,117 for Welsh–Ryan Arena. 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.

Where is Welsh–Ryan Arena?

2705 Ashland Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208. It is 2.9 km (1.8 mi) from the centre of Evanston. The nearest major airport is O'Hare International Airport (ORD), about 20 km (12 mi) away.

What does an event app cost for an event at Welsh–Ryan Arena?

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 Welsh–Ryan Arena. 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 Welsh–Ryan Arena?

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 Welsh–Ryan Arena is booked?

Ryan Field (35,000), Pick-Staiger Concert Hall (1,003) and Cahn Auditorium (1,000) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 18 venues in total are mapped in Evanston.

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