Peoria Civic Center is a
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located next to
Peoria City HallPeoria City Hall, located in the United States city of Peoria, Illinois, was designed and built by Reeves and Baillee in 1897 for US$271,500. The city hall was dedicated January 5 to January 7, 1899. The building is still Peoria's city hall and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
in downtown
Peoria, IllinoisPeoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city was the fifth-largest in Illinois, with a population of 112,936; by 2007 it was the sixth-largest city and had population of 113,546...
.
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. It has an arena, a theater, an exhibit hall, and meeting rooms. It was built in 1982 and completed an expansion to expand its lobby and meeting facilities in 2008.
Carver Arena is the home of the
Bradley UniversityBradley University is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois. It is a medium-sized institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students.-History:...
BravesThe Bradley Braves are the intercollegiate athletics teams of Bradley University, located in Peoria, Illinois.Bradley is best known for its college basketball success. Bradley has been to eight NCAA tournaments, including two national championship games, three Elite 8's, and four Sweet 16's...
men's
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team and the
Peoria RivermenThe Peoria Rivermen are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Peoria, Illinois, USA at the Carver Arena.-History:This is the third franchise to use the "Peoria Rivermen" name as they began play in October 2005...
American Hockey LeagueThe American Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League . 28 of the 30 NHL teams have exclusive affiliation agreements with one of the AHL's 29 active clubs...
ice hockeyIce Hockey is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team's goal. It is a fast-paced and physical sport...
team, and in 2008 will once again be home to the
Peoria PiratesThe Peoria Pirates were a professional arena football team that last played in af2, the minor league to the Arena Football League. They played their home games at Carver Arena, part of the Peoria Civic Center in Illinois, and were coached by Mike Hohensee...
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team.
Peoria Civic Center is a
convention centerA convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that is designed to hold a convention. In British English very large venues suitable for major trade shows are known as exhibition centres while the term "convention centre" is sometimes used for intermediate...
located next to
Peoria City HallPeoria City Hall, located in the United States city of Peoria, Illinois, was designed and built by Reeves and Baillee in 1897 for US$271,500. The city hall was dedicated January 5 to January 7, 1899. The building is still Peoria's city hall and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
in downtown
Peoria, IllinoisPeoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city was the fifth-largest in Illinois, with a population of 112,936; by 2007 it was the sixth-largest city and had population of 113,546...
.
USAThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It has an arena, a theater, an exhibit hall, and meeting rooms. It was built in 1982 and completed an expansion to expand its lobby and meeting facilities in 2008.
Carver Arena
Carver Arena is the home of the
Bradley UniversityBradley University is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois. It is a medium-sized institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students.-History:...
BravesThe Bradley Braves are the intercollegiate athletics teams of Bradley University, located in Peoria, Illinois.Bradley is best known for its college basketball success. Bradley has been to eight NCAA tournaments, including two national championship games, three Elite 8's, and four Sweet 16's...
men's
basketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a
10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
team and the
Peoria RivermenThe Peoria Rivermen are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Peoria, Illinois, USA at the Carver Arena.-History:This is the third franchise to use the "Peoria Rivermen" name as they began play in October 2005...
American Hockey LeagueThe American Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League . 28 of the 30 NHL teams have exclusive affiliation agreements with one of the AHL's 29 active clubs...
ice hockeyIce Hockey is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team's goal. It is a fast-paced and physical sport...
team, and in 2008 will once again be home to the
Peoria PiratesThe Peoria Pirates were a professional arena football team that last played in af2, the minor league to the Arena Football League. They played their home games at Carver Arena, part of the Peoria Civic Center in Illinois, and were coached by Mike Hohensee...
arena footballArena football is a sport based upon American football. It is a proprietary game played indoors on a smaller field than American football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in 1986, and patented in 1990, by James F. Foster, a former executive of the United States...
team. Prior to playing at Carver Arena, Bradley hosted its games at
Robertson Memorial Field HouseRobertson Memorial Field House was a multi-purpose arena at on the Bradley University campus in Peoria, Illinois. The arena, built inside two World War II airplane hangars in 1949 for $400,000 , had a 3 foot rasied floor as its sports court and event stage.The Field House was dedicated on...
. It hosted the 1988
Missouri Valley ConferenceThe Missouri Valley Conference is a college athletic conference whose members are located in the midwestern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I....
men's basketball tournament title game. It seats 9,542 for hockey and indoor football, 11,442 for basketball and up to 12,145 for
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s.
Carver Arena also plays host to the
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boys' basketball state finals for two weeks every March. The interactive March Madness Experience takes places in the adjacent exhibition hall during the tournaments. Concerts, circuses, trade shows (an arena floor by for 29,512 square feet of space), wrestling matches and other events are held here. The arena also contains a 60-by-40-foot portable stage, a production office, eight dressing rooms (four large and four small), eight spotlights, and a ceiling height. There is also an arena club at Carver Arena, eight concession stands, eight restrooms, and two luxury suites.
Exhibit hall
The Civic Center features 63,668 square feet of space (157 ft 8 in by 403' 8") and can hold up to 7,265 persons. It can be divided into three smaller halls and is used for banquets, trade shows, and other events.
Theater
The 2,244-seat theater is the home of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, Peoria Ballet, and Peoria Opera. It is also used for concerts, Broadway shows, and other events. It contains ten dressing rooms including a star dressing room, four 12-person chorus rooms, two 8-person dressing rooms, two 6-person dressing rooms and a 3-person dressing room, and a rehearsal hall backstage. There are 1,450 seats in the main level, 378 seats in the lower balcony and 348 seats in the upper balcony.
Meeting rooms
There are ten meeting rooms totaling 16,889 square feet and divisible into sixteen meeting rooms.
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