Illinois Express
July 23, 2013
The Illinois Express was a short-lived minor league basketball team in the funky World Basketball League. The WBL’s unusual gimmick was that all players had to 6′ 5″ tall or shorter, with the idea that this would lead to a fast-paced, guard heavy, run n’ gun style of play. After spending a year in the Windy City as the Chicago Express in 1988, the team moved to the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield and played two summer seasons in 1989 and 1990 before folding.
