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Chicago Stadium

The Chicago Stadium was an indoor arena in Chicago that opened in 1929, closed in 1994 and was demolished in 1995. It was the home of the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks and the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls. It was used for numerous other sporting events, opening with a championship boxing match in March 1929. The Stadium was built by Paddy Harmon, a promoter, who sank his entire fortune into the project, only to lose control to the Stadium shareholders, and leave his family nearly penniless a year later when he died. After exiting receivership in 1935, the Stadium was owned by the Norris and Wirtz families until its closure in 1994.

Address

1800 West Madison Street
Chicago, Illinois
United States

41°52′54″N 87°40′22″W / 41.88167°N 87.67278°W / 41.88167; -87.67278[2]

Chicago Stadium Corp.

Chicago Stadium Corp.

18,676 (basketball)
17,317 (ice hockey)
18,472 (ice hockey with standing room)

July 2, 1928[3]

March 28, 1929

September 9, 1994

February–May 1995[4]

$5 million - $9.5 million (est.)
($169 million in 2023 dollars[5])

Hall, Lawrence & Ratcliffe, Inc.[6]

Paddy Harmon

1988: Chicago was the host city for the NBA All-Star Game.

1973

1987: of the Chicago Bulls scored 61 points on April 16 [30] to become the only NBA player other than Wilt Chamberlain to top 3,000 points in a single season.

Michael Jordan

1991: Chicago Bulls won their first championship.

1992: men's basketball tournament.

Great Midwest Conference

1992: won the second of three straight NBA titles in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. This would be the only time the Bulls clinched the championship while playing on the Stadium's floor, though they did it twice at the new United Center (in 1996 and again in 1997).

Chicago Bulls

1993: Chicago Bulls won their third championship.

1994: The final Bulls home game at Chicago Stadium was played on May 20, a 93-79 Bulls win over the New York Knicks in game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals (the team would lose game 7 at in New York City).[31][32]

Madison Square Garden

1994: The final event at Chicago Stadium was 's Ameritech Classic charity basketball game, which was organized through Reverend Jesse Jackson's Push-Excel program and was held on September 9, 1994. Michael Jordan, despite being in retirement at the time (he would return to basketball six months later), participated and scored 52 points, leading the White team to a 187–150 victory over Pippen's Red team. At the end of the game, Jordan kneeled and kissed the Bulls logo at center court.

Scottie Pippen

– Former Bulls public address announcer

Ray Clay

Ross, J. Andrew (2015). Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.  978-0-8156-3383-9.

ISBN

Chicago Stadium's Basketball History

Chicago Stadium's Ice Hockey History