In 1946, the Joliet Junior Chamber of Commerce chose a board to start building a stadium.
In one month's time, the officials gained petitions with the signatures of 22,000 residents of the Joliet park district.
For many years after it opened when the track surrounding the football field was made of cinders, the stadium also doubled as the Joliet Speedway where it mainly hosted Stock car and Midget racing.
The Stadium was the home of the United Auto Racing Association (UARA) and among the regular drivers at the speedway were midget racers from neighbour towns including Streator native Bob Tattersall (who would later go on to win the 1969 USAC National Midget Championship) and "Wild" Willie Wildhaber from Lexington..
[1][2] In May 2009, renovations on the aging stadium began with the installation of a new, state-of-the-art LED video scoreboard to replace the old, screenless one.
By the end of the renovations, planned to be sometime before the 2010 college football season, artificial turf will be installed, along with a new track surface to surround the field.