It is accessible from the CTA Blue Line Racine stop, located one block north of the Pavilion.

It also hosted UIC's ice hockey team when they competed in the CCHA as well as the 1984, 1999, and 2000 Horizon League men's basketball conference tournament.

[3] From 2004 to 2006 it also housed the Chicago Storm Major Indoor Soccer League team before they moved into the newly constructed Sears Centre.

The UIC Pavilion was the home arena for Jim Crockett Promotions and World Championship Wrestling in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The venue continues to be a regular host for major rock concerts, including notable sets from Green Day[citation needed] to Phish.