Chicago’s Grant Park hosted about 115,000 music followers per day in the course of the four-day Lollapalooza pageant that capped off on Sunday (August 3).
That’s in accordance to FOX 32 Chicago, which reported on Monday (August 4), citing Lollapalooza organizers, that the annual occasion generated solely 12 arrests whereas requiring 42 ambulance transports throughout all 4 days.
In earlier years, 9 arrests had been made in 2024, 14 in 2023, 15 in 2022, 19 in 2021, and 31 in 2019 earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic, the report stated, citing information from the Metropolis of Chicago’s Workplace of Emergency Administration and Communications.
Avenue closures round Grant Park started lifting Monday morning as cleanup crews had been deployed throughout the pageant grounds. In 2023, the cleanup alone price properly over $400,000, FOX 32 stated. The cleanup course of reportedly entails restoration efforts like resodding, mulch insolation, watering and re-planting.
This yr’s Lollapalooza featured Sabrina Carpenter headlining the T-Cellular fundamental stage on Sunday, with shock friends Earth, Wind & Fireplace, and A$AP Rocky, who carried out from a life-sized helicopter.
Lollapalooza is produced by C3 Presents, which grew to become a subsidiary of Reside Nation in 2014.
The pageant additionally noticed performances from Gracie Abrams, Djo, Bleachers, T-Ache, Foster the Folks, Flipturn, Caroline Kingsbury, Doechii, Remi Wolf, and KATSEYE, amongst many others.
Different headliners from Thursday to Sunday had been Tyler, The Creator, Luke Combs, Olivia Rodrigo, KORN, Australian band Rüfüs Du Sol and Ok-pop teams BOYNEXTDOOR and TWICE.
TWICE set the report as the primary Ok-pop woman group to headline Lollapalooza, in accordance to Rolling Stone. In 2022, BTS’s J-Hope grew to become the primary South Korean artist to headline Lollapalooza.
In an interview with The Korea Instances on Saturday, KATSEYE’s Manon stated: “It’s our first pageant ever… We’ve labored so laborious for it, and now we’re at some extent the place we’re simply able to take over the stage and let Chicago know who we’re.”
KATSEYE was fashioned from a expertise search organized by HYBE’s partnership with Common Music Group‘s Geffen Data.
On a latest earnings name, HYBE CEO Jason Jaesang Lee stated KATSEYE “had one of the best yr in 2024 with their debut album SIS,” with their title observe Contact showing on the Billboard Effervescent Underneath Scorching 100 for 2 weeks and the World Tune Chart for 13 consecutive weeks.
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