Friday's Illinois-Nebraska game brings daytime street closures and later lot openings near campus

CHAMPAIGN - Illinois hosts Nebraska at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at Gies Memorial Stadium, and the weekday kickoff brings staggered street closures and parking changes, Illinois Athletics said.

Street closures: Kirby Avenue between First and Fourth streets and First Street between Kirby Avenue and Irwin Drive close at 6 a.m. Peabody Drive between First and Fourth streets and Fourth Street between Kirby Avenue and Peabody Drive close at 1 p.m. Kirby Avenue between Neil Street and Goodwin Avenue, St. Mary's Road between Neil and Fourth streets, and Pennsylvania Avenue between Fourth and Sixth streets close at 3:30 p.m.; access to the Lot 15 parking structure will be kept open.

Single-game parking opens at 7 a.m. in the large grass lot in Research Park off Oak Street, and at 4:30 p.m. in the paved Research Park and Veterinary Medicine lots, at $30 per car. All game-day parking is cashless.

Because of university employee parking, game-day pass holders in Lot 37 (ARC), Lot 43 (the parking structure) and Lot 49 (FAR) can't park there until 4 p.m.; they may use any open game-day purchase lot earlier. Other listed pass lots open at 7 a.m.

Source: Fighting Illini: Friday night football parking advisory (read Nov. 4, 2026).