My friends, Michael and Jessica are season ticket holders for the Peoria Chiefs and once a year they get access to a suite at Dozer Park. They invited me to join them a year ago and this year I was invited once again! Of course I happily accepted this invitation!

Luckily there’s a full service bar on the second floor where the suites are, so that will be this afternoon’s Sunday bar destination. And so it’s off to Dozer Park we go on this lovely afternoon in May of 2026!

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Bar Number 116: The Dozer Park Bar, Sunday, May 10, 2026

Here we are at Dozer Park in downtown Peoria on a beautiful spring day in May!

We’re now on the second floor of Dozer Park and there’s our suite! Sweet!

There’s a nice Mexican buffet featuing tacos and nachos for lunch and there’s the view of the park from inside the suite.

Some people in the party didn’t want to be on the internet, which I understand, so I’m limiting my photos I take in the suite.

Here’s the seats outside of the suite and there’s our wondeful and lovely hosts for this afternoon, Jessica and Michael!

In addition to being a baseball fan, Michael is also a live music enthusiast and he archives the live shows that he attends. Check out his impressive and large music online archive page by clicking here.

Wonderful to see them and hang out with them for the afternoon here at Dozer Park!

The game has started and there’s some shots of Dozer Park on this fun afternoon in downtown Peoria.

In addition to enjoying the buffet, the suite and the baseball game, we also need to visit the bar up here and here we are at bar number 116. I don’t think this bar has an official name, so I decided to name it, “The Dozer Park Bar.”

I even designed a logo for this bar…

And here it is!

I just used their existing logo and added in the words “The” and “Bar” and voila, there it is!

In fact, I like it better than the “P” and “C” initials they have on the bar. Maybe it’s time for a switcheroo…

Check it out…I like it and hey Peoria Chiefs, feel free to use this logo at no charge…it’s compliments of MBIP!

Okay, time to begin our afternoon here at the newly christened, Dozer Park Bar!

Tyson was the friendly bartender on duty and here he is serving me up an ice-cold Budweiser tallboy!

Tyson said he’s worked out here at Dozer Park and he’s also a teacher and he bartends at Segreto di Stefania, which we had a wonderful Saturday dinner at a couple of weeks ago. Tyson’s a busy guy!

Here’s a couple shots of the cozy bar in here.

As you can see, this is a well-stocked bar and there’s plenty of choices to make in here regarding a drink or four!

Speaking of four, here’s the four beers on tap behind the bar.

There’s tables and chairs opposite the bar in here and there’s Michael enjoying the game on the TV on the wall near the bar.

Let’s go down in the stands and see what’s happening down here.

The ballpark is looking great and I love the statue of Pete Vonachen who was the owner of The Peoria Chiefs starting in 1984.

There’s Homer with my friend, Mike, who’s an usher here and the two of us worked together at Fleming Potter years ago! Always great to see Mike!

Then I ran into my friends Dick and Tori who we last saw when we visited Tavern 41.

Mike Wiesehan came over and said hi and it was wonderful to see him as well! Lots of fun and friends at Dozer Park!

Meanwhile, back at Suite number 12, we celebrated Jessica’s Mother’s Day with a beautiful and delicious bakery cake!

This was a super-fun day at Dozer Park and thanks so much to Michael and Jessica for inviting me and letting me part of this Suite day at the Peoria Chiefs game!

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