Schaumburg

Schaumburg Baseball Stadium is a stadium in Schaumburg, Illinois formerly known as Alexian Field. It is primarily used for baseball, and was the home... field of the Schaumburg Flyers minor league baseball team from 1999 through 2010. It is now home to the Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League which will begin play in May 2012. Schaumburg Baseball Stadium opened in 1999 and holds 6,000 people. Its field dimensions mimic those of Chicago's Wrigley Field, and the land the stadium is built on was originally purchased in the mid-1980s as a hopeful site for the New Wrigley Field, had the City of Chicago and the Chicago Cubs not come to terms to bring night baseball to the North Side. Some pro lacrosse as well as professional and amateur softball has also been played at Schaumburg Baseball Stadium due to the late start of the Northern League's season. The Stadium itself is located west of I-355 off the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway. Originally and once again called Schaumburg Baseball Stadium, the Alexian Brothers Medical Center in nearby Elk Grove purchased the naming rights to the ballpark in 2000.
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