The Bearon is a "Bear" of course. He's friendly flying friend complete with cap, goggles, and gloves. He wanders the stadium waving "Hello" to everyone and favorite with all the kids.
On my visit in 2001 I discovered Bearon has a skill few other mascots have --he can Rollerblade. Before the game he's rolling back and forth around the concourse greeting kids.
Building this new park was a success and made even bigger and better than originally planned. Costs rose to $13 million as they added more space (probably for parking and more buffer zone from the neighborhood) and to make the park details better.
The Flyers have great pride in the many ways Schaumburg Baseball Stadium is a "Little Wrigley." Some of these include the dimensions of the field, green seating, manual scoreboard with analog clock, and others.
But this park is more of a "Little Shea Stadium."
What you'll soon understand after arriving is that they're called the "Flyers" since the ballpark seems to be right at the end of the local municipal airport. (Like the line from "The Blues Brothers," they fly over so often "you'll hardly even notice after a while.") Thankfully its mainly small private planes and not terribly noise.
A WW II era B-19 twin-engine bomber made a banked landing (almost hitting the outfield light poles) and there at least one experimental plane took off during the '99 opening series. These are just a few of the possibilities in the skies above the "Flyers Hangar."
The altitude of many of these planes is in the range of a "high pop fly." It's a webmaster's prediction that they'll eventually have to discuss field rules about "hitting the planes."