United Center

Also known as The UC, Madhouse on Madison, The House that Jordan Built

indoor arena in Chicago

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It is catalogued under topics including 1994 establishments in Illinois, Basketball venues in Chicago and Boxing venues in Illinois.

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Key facts

Address: 1901 West Madison Street
Location: Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
Owner: United Center Joint Venture (UCJV), ( Chicago Bulls 50%/ Chicago Blackhawks 50%)
Operator: United Center Joint Venture
Capacity: Basketball : 20,917 (23,129 with standing room) , Concerts : 23,500 , Ice hockey : 19,717 (22,428 with standing room)
Scoreboard: Mitsubishi Electric
Record attendance: 22,819 (February 15, 1997 vs. New York Rangers )
Field size: 960,000 sq ft (89,000 m )
Public transit: Chicago "L" :, Green at Damen , Green Pink at Ashland , Blue at Illinois Medical District
Groundbreaking: April 6, 1992
Built: 1992–1994
Opened: August 18, 1994
Renovated: 2009–10 (300 Level), 2014 (exterior)
Expanded: 2016–17 (atrium)
Construction cost: $ 175 million, ($380 million in 2025 dollars )
Architect: Populous (then HOK Sport), W. E. Simpson Company, Inc. , Marmon Mok
Project manager: International Facilities Group, LLC
Structural engineer: Thornton Tomasetti

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Wikidata facts

Area: 89240
Official website: www.unitedcenter.com
Image: United Center 060716.jpg

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Commons category: United Center
maximum capacity: 23500
nickname: Madhouse on Madison
date of official opening: 1994-08-18
social media followers: 63550
inception: 1994-08-18

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Encyclopedic overview

United Center is an indoor arena on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is home to the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). It is named for its corporate sponsor United Airlines. With a seating capacity of up to 23,500, the United Center is the largest arena by capacity in the NBA, and second largest arena by capacity in the NHL after the Bell Centre.

Opened in 1994, the United Center replaced the West Side's Chicago Stadium ("the madhouse on Madison"), which was opened in 1929 and located across Madison Street from the center. It is owned by the Reinsdorf and Wirtz families, owners of the teams that use the arena, and which also own much of the surrounding land. The first event held at the arena was WWF SummerSlam, and it hosts hundreds of sporting events, and concerts a year. The center also hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1996 and 2024. The arena served as the municipal emergency hub in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “United Center” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.