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4 days ago · EVANSTON, Ill. ---Northwestern University today celebrated the formal groundbreaking for the new Ryan Field, a 100% privately funded project set to bring thousands of jobs and nearly $660 million in economic impact to the City of Evanston and surrounding areas.The ceremony took place at the site of the new stadium and included remarks by University officials and Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.
3 days ago · While the new Ryan Field is being built, a temporary athletic field on the Evanston campus will host the school's football, soccer and lacrosse games for the 2024 and 2025 college sports seasons.
Ryan Field was a stadium in the central United States, located in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago. Near the campus of Northwestern University, it was primarily used for American football, and was the home field of the Northwestern Wildcats of the Big Ten Conference.
4 days ago · Northwestern University celebrates groundbreaking for Ryan Field’s $800M stadium rebuild. Members of the Ryan Family are joined by the guest speakers during the Ryan Field groundbreaking ...
The new Ryan Field will create a world-class home for Northwestern University Athletics and a best in the nation football experience for fans, players, and a year-round asset for the community. The project will be privately funded - with no taxpayer financing and significant public benefits.
4 days ago · The new Ryan Field is part of a $480 million donation from the family of Patrick and Shirley Ryan that was the largest in school history. Some of that money is funding academic ventures. The school has said the stadium would seat 35,000, down more than 12,000 from the old Ryan Field, which opened in 1926. It will feature a canopy designed to ...
Opened in the fall of 1997, the new stadium was named Ryan Field in honor of 1959 Northwestern graduate Patrick G. Ryan, founder of AON Corporation and long-time Chairman of the Northwestern Board of Trustees. In over 30 years as a trustee, Mr. Ryan was a champion of Northwestern's athletic resurgence.
Mar 4, 2024 · Named for alum and billionaire insurance magnate Patrick G. Ryan, 86, the field will be replaced by a new, rezoned, $1 billion multiuse, 35,000-seat palace ready for Wildcats football, concerts, and events — to be called, we’ll assume, ‘‘new’’ Ryan Field.
Sep 28, 2022 · One year after announcing a transformative gift by the Pat and Shirley Ryan Family to build a new Ryan Field, Northwestern University today released renderings of a schematic design for the new stadium to replace the current 97-year-old structure.
Feb 9, 2024 · One year after announcing a transformative gift by the Pat and Shirley Ryan Family to build a new Ryan Field, Northwestern University today released renderings of a schematic design for the new stadium to replace the current 97-year-old structure.
