EastSide Centre — Attraction in East Peoria

Beautiful fields with terribly inadequate safety features on baseball fields. I can't believe they spent all the funds it must have cost to build these wonderful fields and facilities. Only to have dangerously inadequate backstop netting on the adjoining baseball fields. If there are multiple baseball games happening when your team plays, do not sit with your back to another game, as MOST foul balls are not stopped by their low fences and/or nets. Adding overhead nets would have been a miniscule amount of funds compared to what they spent on the fields and facilities. In just one game, we had 8 people hit with foul balls off neighboring fields. And I lost count of how many "close calls" there were. Im not sure if OSHA has code requirements for baseball fields, but I wonder if it's worth an OSHA complaint regarding...

I was an East Peoria track teammate, and also an East Side member for years so I've seen a lot of this place. Good facility with a great track, indoors and out, made of old rubber tires, and a good selection of machines and free weights. Many classes from yoga to weight lifting and there's free daycare during your workout. They used to have protein smoothies which I loved but they don't anymore, and there's a physical therapy clinic in the same building as well as personal trainers. The only problem is they don't have a pool other...

Honestly. Not sure how this place works bc it’s my first time here but if they say gates open at 7, why am I standing outside freezing til 7:30? One of first 25 people in and immediately went to bathroom which was FILTHY! Hair and urine on every seat I looked at. NASTY! Pricing wasn’t as advertised either which concerns me since it was cash only. Pocketing extra from every spectator means a ton of “tips”...