Rolling Meadows, IL
Rolling Meadows is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 24,200.
History
In 1836, Orrin Ford became the first landowner in the area that is now Rolling Meadows, staking his claim of in an area ...
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Ice
Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaq ...
Chicago Hitmen
The Chicago Hitmen were a Junior A Tier II ice hockey team based out of the Chicago region.
NAHL team history
The Chicago Hitmen played in the North American Hockey League from 2010 to 2012. The team first played in the 1,000-seat West Meadows Ic ...
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* North American Hockey League, an American junior hockey league
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/ NA3HL) (2010–2011)
The West Meadows Ice Arena is a multi-purpose
arena
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in
Rolling Meadows, IL
Rolling Meadows is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 24,200.
History
In 1836, Orrin Ford became the first landowner in the area that is now Rolling Meadows, staking his claim of in an area ...
. It features ice for
hockey
Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...
,
figure skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...
, and open skating.
The ice rink is owned and operated by the Rolling Meadows Park District. West Meadows is one of two ice rinks in Rolling Meadows.
The arena was home to the
Chicago Hitmen
The Chicago Hitmen were a Junior A Tier II ice hockey team based out of the Chicago region.
NAHL team history
The Chicago Hitmen played in the North American Hockey League from 2010 to 2012. The team first played in the 1,000-seat West Meadows Ic ...
a Jr. A ice hockey organization fielding teams in the Tier II Jr A
North American Hockey League
The North American Hockey League (NAHL) is one of the top junior hockey leagues in the United States and is in its 48th season of operation in 2022–23. It is the only Tier II junior league sanctioned by USA Hockey, and acts as an alternati ...
as well as the Tier III Jr A
North American 3 Hockey League
The North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL) is an American Junior ice hockey#Tier III, Tier III junior ice hockey league that consists of teams from Connecticut, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, M ...
during the 2010-11 season before they moved to the
Fox Valley Ice Arena
Fox Valley Ice Arena is a public skating facility offering basic to advanced skating lessons for both figure skating and hockey. In addition, it is home to the Chicago Steel of the United States Hockey League. It contains two rinks: one measures ...