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Lollapalooza Day 3 reviews: Willow shows she’s ready for rock opera

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Lollapalooza 2022: Day 3 photo gallery

On a day featuring Tomorrow x Together, Willow and J. Cole, here’s a look at the performances and the fans at Grant Park.

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Lollapalooza 2022: Day 2 photo gallery

On a day featuring Machine Gun Kelly and Dua Lipa, here’s a look at the performances and the fans at Grant Park.

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Lollapalooza Day 2: Fans crush on Dua Lipa, concertgoers say they hope festival stays in Chicago

CHICAGO — The second day of Lollapalooza opened with questions swirling outside the Grant Park gates about the music festival’s future in Chicago, and about contract talks between Texas-based producer C3 Presents and the city. Inside, the focus was on the experience and the music.

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Picture Chicago: This week’s can’t miss photos

Music strikes a chord with Chicago as visits from Chris Stapleton and Roger Waters, along with the start of Lollapalooza, fill the air.

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City Council members want to put the brakes on NASCAR’s Chicago street race

Alderpersons Pat Dowell (3rd), Sophia King (4th) and Brendan Reilly (42nd) are upset NASCAR could occupy part of Grant Park for two weeks next summer.

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Talks to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago after this year hit a snag

CHICAGO — Lollapalooza organizers and the Chicago Park District reached a stalemate Thursday night in crafting a new contract to keep Chicago’s largest music festival in Grant Park for years to come.

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Lollapalooza’s future in Chicago is uncertain. Will it be decided behind closed doors?

CHICAGO — Following Lollapalooza’s long and lucrative run in Chicago, the future of the flagship music festival is still to be determined, with its decade-old contract ending this year.

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Lingering questions about NASCAR's Chicago street race

Less than a year remains before the NASCAR Cup Series debuts its first street race in downtown Chicago and there are plenty of remaining questions.

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Lingering questions about NASCAR's Chicago street course

Less than a year remains before the NASCAR Cup Series debuts its first street course in downtown Chicago and there are plenty of remaining questions. We tried to answer a few.

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Chicago will transform the Grant Park area into the first-ever NASCAR street race in 2023

CHICAGO — Imagine cars racing down Lake Shore Drive at 130 mph, burning rubber on South Michigan Avenue and jockeying for position bumper-to-bumper on Balbo Drive. Welcome to the new rush hour in Chicago.

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Woman who lost a tooth when Chicago police officer allegedly hit her with a cellphone calls his resignation ‘cowardly’

Miracle Boyd was among the protesters in July 2020 near the Columbus statue in Grant Park.

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Man charged with attacking Chicago police officer near Grant Park

Craig Smart is charged with one felony count of aggravated battery to a peace officer and two misdemeanor counts of resisting a peace officer, police said.

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Chicago police officer accused of striking activist during Grant Park demonstration in 2020 has resigned

Officer Nicholas Jovanovich faced dismissal from the Chicago Police Department for striking Miracle Boyd in 2020 and filing a false police report.

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The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago July 7-13, 2022

The annual Rhythm World dance fest, Movies in Millennium Park, and Taste of Chicago in Grant Park are among the entertainment highlights in the weeks ahead.

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Nick Cave walks through the highlights of ‘Forothermore’ at the MCA, his first major career retrospective

CHICAGO — Thirty years ago, when Nick Cave made his first Soundsuit — creating the foundation of what would become hundreds of signature costumes and sculptures, assembled with beads, old toys, stuffed animals, synthetic hair and sequins — he wrote in his journal that he was “working toward what I’m…

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Grant Park fencing is like a prison camp

With festival season upon us, we can expect the cyclone fencing around much of Grant Park to remain, making Chicago’s glorious front yard on the lake look more like a deserted prison camp.

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Taste of Chicago 2022 food vendors, music lineups announced; Nelly, Aterciopelados, Drive-By Truckers among artists on tap

The celebration of Chicago’s restaurant scene takes place in Grant Park, Austin, Pullman and Little Village.

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Sueños Music Festival 2022 reviews, Day 2: Sech, Jhay Cortez, Wisin y Yandel, J. Balvin

The second day of the first-ever reggaetón festival in Grant Park drew tens of thousands of fans.

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Suenos Music Festival 2022: PHOTO GALLERY

The first-ever Latin reggaeton music festival in Grant Park brought thousands of fans to Grant Park over the Memorial Day weekend.

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Sueños Music Festival 2022 reviews, Day 1: Farruko, Myke Towers, El Alfa, Ozuna

Day 1’s most energetic performance came from the Dominican superstar El Alfa, “El Jefe.”

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Sueños Musical Festival gets underway, with a few bumps in the road

Attendees of Sueños Music Festival are getting the chance to be a part of history at the first-ever outodoor reggaetón festival in Grant Park.

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Sueños Music Festival gig a ‘dream come true’ for Chicago DJ

DJ Miriam can’t wait to perform alongside all of her favorite Latin American and Caribbean artists at this Grant Park music festival.

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Family of cyclist killed on DuSable Lake Shore Drive calls for safety improvements: ‘This cannot keep happening’

Gerardo Marciales, 41, was fatally struck Feb. 28 near Grant Park. The driver, a 26-year-old man, was cited for disobeying lane markings.

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J Balvin postpones tour due to COVID-related ‘production challenges’

The tour was slated to launch April 19 in San Antonio, Texas. The postponement does not include his appearance at the Suenos Music Festival in Chicago’s Grant Park on May 29.

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