Lollapalooza came to a close Sunday in Grant Park with a lineup that included Chicago acts Horsegirl and Beach Bunny and end-of-the night boldface names Green Day and J-Hope.
whether the festival would be back on the lakefront for 2023. Texas-based C3 Presents, a division of Live Nation, was still negotiating its contract with the city.Jim Wright was with a group of Chicagoans watching Horsegirl early in the afternoon on the north end of Grant Park, standing on asphalt at the Tito’s stage. They had heard about the young Chicago band but hadn’t seen them live before.
“Honestly, the headliners are less interesting,” said Tony Seaman, part of the group watching Horsegirl. It’s the other bands in the lineup they came to see. He showed a list on his phone of their musical diary over their four days and said he planned to listen more to those acts post-festival.Next up, with Chicago’s skyline beaming behind the Bud Light Stage, rapper Erika Banks had the crowd roaring.
“Whenever my girls come onstage, I need the crowd to encourage them. So I need the crowd to yell, throw that ,” Banks yelled. The crowd cheered Banks and her impromptu background dancers for a song that began with a sample of Nelly’s “Hot in Herre.”On the CoinBase stage, R&B singer and rapper Audrey Nuna had the crowd swaying side to side in unison to the song “molars.” Nuna said, “I have a tattoo of a tooth on my leg so I wrote this next song about teeth and feelings.
Lopez, who attended all four days of the festival, called for greater diversity in Lollapalooza’s future lineups. interrupted sets from both Chicago rapper Lil Durk and Big Sean. Both the artists and managers at the Solana x Perry’s and T-Mobile stages, respectively, took steps to have crowds step back and make room as security pulled out those in distress. Security members in yellow shirts also throw water boxes to raised hands in the mosh pits.
Along with uniformed police walking and biking the grounds, there have been officers on Polaris vehicles patrolling in camouflage, badged as FBI and Counter-Terrorism teams. Though not authorized to speak on the record, an officer told the Tribune they’d been at Lollapalooza in past years as well.Although no theft figures were available, the Tribune has learned anecdotally of multiple instances of pickpocketing at the festival.
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