Dubuque
Dubuque sits on Chicago’s doorstep and is right on the Mississippi River. The population is 57,000 in the city and 92,000 throughout the greater metropolitan area. The city also has two casinos including a riverboat. Dubuque surprisingly has several facilities that could host an IBL franchise. The Five Flags Civic Center holds over 5,000 basketball fans and the city has 5 colleges in the area. Loras College has plenty of capacity and is an excellent facility with the deeper three point line. The youtube video below is of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.
The city also has the Dubuque Regional Airport that hosts several daily flights to and from Chicago. Dubuque has over 22,000 registered businesses within 40 miles of the town center. The top ten companies are Deere & Co., Mercy Medical Center, Eagle Window & Door, Medical Associates, Finley Hospital, Woodward Communications, Prudential Financial, Barnstead/Thermolyne, McKesson Corp, and Quebexor World. Some other companies with a strong presence include The McGraw-Hill Companies, Diamond Jo Casino, ThermoFisher, A.Y. McDonald Mfg., Nordstrom, Alliant Energy, Swiss Valley, The Metrix Company, and Cottingham & Butler. Dubuque’s economy is one of the fastest growing in the nation. In 2005 Dubuque had the 22nd best job growth rate in the nation.
Dubuque is within driving distance to all IBL teams in the midwest and is a very short trip to the Elgin Racers, Windy City Soliders, and Gary Steelheads. In addition to the colleges around Dubuque, the state of Iowa has several universities to draw players from including closeby Northern Iowa University, The University of Iowa, Iowa State University, Indian Hills Community College (Corey Hightower, Ernest Brown), and Drake University.
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