It was recently reported by Dave Meltzer in the most recent edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that next yr’s WWE Elimination Chamber Premium Live Event was set to happen in Chicago, Illinois on February 28, 2026. Now a brand new report from Wrestlenomics has backed up these claims, who’ve confirmed with quite a few sources that the annual final stop before WrestleMania will indeed happen in Chicago, with the Allstate Arena seeking to be the chosen venue.
While WWE is yet to verify an official date, the event will mark the primary time since 2021 that the Elimination Chamber event will happen in the US, and the primary since 2020 with a live audience. The 2021 event took place through the Thunderdome era of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida housing the corporate at the moment. The 2022 event would travel to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia before traveling to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2023. Perth, Australia got its first Premium Live Event in 2024 when the Elimination Chamber made the trip down under, while this yr’s event returned to Canada, this time to the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
Barring any last minute additions to the schedule, the confirmation of the Elimination Chamber event going down in Chicago implies that the road to WrestleMania 42 will likely be set in stone. Following a tour of the UK firstly of 2026, the Royal Rumble Premium Live Event will happen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the primary time on January 31, with Elimination Chamber going down on February 28. All of that can result in the WrestleMania 42, which is ready to happen on April 18 and 19 on the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada for the second consecutive yr.