![]() I parked a couple blocks up from the ballpark on the street for free - one of many great things about going to a ballgame on a Sunday. Like Waterloo, it's a very old river town with long-abandoned factories, and has an up-and-coming "main street" area. ![]() Anyways, I would compare Peoria to Waterloo, only with taller buildings and wider streets. With approximately 115,000 residents, it comes in as the 3rd largest city in the circuit - any idea what the largest Midwest League city is? I would have guessed Lansing myself, never in my life would I have guessed Fort Wayne-Dayton-Peoria were 1-2-3. I rolled into town about 1:30 and was not expecting Peoria to be as big a city as it was. The drive down to central Illinois was a little over 3 hours and not too eventful. After an affiliate change and a couple stadium name changes, I finally made it there this past Sunday. Thus, with each passing year, I have grown more and more excited to see this park based on nothing more than my own anticipation. It just seems like they are never home when I'm free to go, or I have plans to go and something comes up, or the weather doesn't cooperate - it just never works out for a variety of reasons. It's one of the few parks I had left to visit within an afternoon's driving distance and I've been trying to go there since I finished grad school. You could say that Peoria has definitely been my "white whale" of ballparks. I recently visited my 11th of 16 Midwest League parks in Peoria, Illinois, home of the Chiefs. All photos of Dozer Park and Peoria available on Flickr.
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