I don't remember exactly what the timeline was, but it looks like the renderings that we saw came out late 2016 (I have a post on AGS about them in December 2016), which would have been right in the middle of the state budget impasse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_budget_impasse). It wasn't too long after that when we had the valid issues with President Thomas (and highly-publicized racism in the community), and then COVID hit, which I think all contributed to the lack of focus on big projects and more just trying to survive each week. It looks like the plan was to try to raise $10M to get the project started, but my guess is that never panned out.rocki wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 11:15 amI thought there had been a big push to renovate the home side - what happened with that? Unfortunately, I don't have mega bucks to donate to the cause.NewNeck wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 11:59 am Are they doing anything about the west side stands and pressbox? Those are the same chair back seats from the 1970's. Has to be worst/most unsafe home side stadium in FCS and probably tough to recruit to.
It's now been just under 10 years since the renderings came out and with all that happened between now and then, I think you can pretty much consider the project dead at this point.
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