Tickets available for NIU Huskies Chi-Town Showdown Nov. 9

Posted October 16, 2016 11:00 pm

Melinda Guerra

Guaranteed Rate Field, home of the White Sox, will be the site for the Mid-America rivalry game between the Huskies and the Rockets.

Billed as the Huskie Chi-Town Showdown, the game will be 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9.

Rivals on the field, Northern Illinois University and University of Toledo will share the honor of playing in the first football game ever on the field of the stadium built in 1991.

Tickets are still available for this game, which will be nationally televised on ESPN.

The game is set to be a good one, as NIU is one of the most successful Division I football subdivision teams in the nation.

Guaranteed Rate Field is owned by the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, whose CEO Lou Bertuca, comments, "Our board wanted to increase the number of non-baseball events held at the facility; two members of our board (Manny Sanchez and Jeff Yordon) were in the NIU class of 1970, so it was natural to reach out to NIU for a partnership. The Field is the perfect venue for many of the 145,000 NIU alumni in the Chicago area to enjoy the Huskie Chi-Town Showdown: we're accessible from all expressways, we're our own entertainment center, we're an easy in-and-out facility … and we've got the best video boards in the country!"

Huskie Chi-Town Showdown

November 9, 2016

7:00 PM game time

Guaranteed Rate Field

333 W. 35th St., Chicago

Tickets start at $45

To purchase tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com.

For questions, call (312) 951-7575.

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