Cleanup Costs For Lollapalooza Balloon To Highest Amount Since 2011
Cleanup costs for Lollapalooza amounted to more than $645,000 this year – the highest amount since 2011.
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Cleanup costs for Lollapalooza amounted to more than $645,000 this year – the highest amount since 2011.
The NFL has turned Grant Park into football fantasy land to kick off the league's 100th season as the Chicago Bears prepare to host the Green Bay Packers in the season opener at Soldier Field on Thursday night.
In celebration of both the NFL and the Chicago Bears 100th seasons, the "2019 NFL Kickoff Experience" is coming to Grant Park Thursday.
The cleanup started just hours after the last performer, Ariana Grande, took the stage on Sunday night.
A festivalgoer has died after being rushed to the hospital from Lollapalooza this weekend.
Lollapalooza 2019 kicks off in Grant Park on August 1, here's what you need to know.
The Taste of Chicago opens today at 11 a.m. in Grant Park, featuring 41 restaurants and 17 food trucks through Sunday.
The Taste of Chicago kicks off in Grant Park on July 10, here's what you need to know.
The City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events announced the full music lineup for the 39th annual Taste of Chicago, which will take place July 10-14 in Grant Park.
Chicagoans celebrated as Buckingham Fountain was turned on for the season Sunday in Grant Park.
The 39th Annual Taste of Chicago will bring 82 eateries with more than 300 menu items to Grant Park this July.
The day-by-day breakdown for 2019 Lollapalooza was announced Wednesday, giving Lolla-goers a better idea of which days to hit the four-day music fest in Grant Park.
Rapper Iggy Azalea and DJ Steve Aoki will be headlining "Pride in the Park," a new one-day music festival that is part of Chicago's 50th Pride Month celebration.
Tickets for Lollapalooza go on sale today at 10 a.m.
An unidentified body was pulled from Lake Michigan near Grant Park Sunday afternoon, according to Chicago police.
A Columbia College student's report that she was stabbed during an attempted robbery in Grant Park on Wednesday night has been determined to be unfounded, police said.
Police said the 23-year-old woman was walking near Wabash Avenue and Ida B. Wells Drive around 9:50 p.m., when a man walked up to her and demanded money.
Dan Jarski has been missing since Sept. 9. He left his wallet and cell phone behind at his Grant Park home.
"To make this the country we want it to be, fair to all, just to all and inclusive to all, we're going to have to do this as individuals. So please march to the polls."
"The barriers seem to take too long to come down."
"It's actually bigger than basketball. It's like a big family coming together," Shavion Hill said.
"Its been pretty intense this year, I'm not gonna lie. The heat this year has been crazy."
More hydration stations, medical tents and shade for fans have been added.
Lollapalooza, one of the largest and best-known music festivals in the world, gets underway later today.
Chicago's reputation as a world-class city for food will be showcased Wednesday when the 38th annual Taste of Chicago opens at Grant park.
McHenry County officials are warning residents that email scammers are targeting people who have submitted zoning or permit requests.
Police say a drone helped officers save a little boy's life Monday afternoon in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Chicago Department of Aviation is holding a contest to name a boulder found under O'Hare International Airport during construction work.
Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of then-U.S. Senate candidate Charles Percy, was brutally murdered in her family's home in the affluent North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth in 1966. The case has never been solved.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is welcoming a record-breaking class for the 2026 fall semester.
Illinois' legislature will once again soon find itself without a legislative inspector general. Michael McCuskey will resign that watchdog post amid criticism about his ability to handle investigations.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit over the use of a controversial data system to review state voter rolls.
Brooks is seeking to stand out with a platform centering on revitalizing city neighborhoods and new means of promoting public safety.
Turning Point Action is expanding its Iowa presence county by county, with leaders saying high voter participation in the caucuses is the organization's key measure of success.
In less than two weeks, the high-energy laser weapon system has taken down 11 drones, coinciding with a 75% drop in drones probing the border, military officials told CBS News.
Drivers in Chicago and beyond were paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday as millions of Americans were making their way home on Monday.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit Thursday against ABC Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric Inc., alleging deceptive business practices.
Cook County homeowners are again facing a sharper increase in property taxes this year than businesses, the Office of Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas announced Monday.
Contracted linemen from out of state sat idle in a Griffith church parking lot for hours without work orders from NIPSCO, as residents in Northwest Indiana approach two weeks without power.
Cardinal Blase Cupich and a group of Catholic nuns have joined a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois' Medical Aid in Dying law, which is set to take effect in just over a week.
Flies have been everywhere this summer in the Chicago area, and some of them bite. But why is this happening?
Prime Healthcare is drawing criticism after announcing it will stop obstetrics services at three Chicago-area hospitals.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Tuesday announced two human cases and one death from the West Nile virus in the city this year, and one of those two people has died.
The Jackson Chance Foundation supports the lives of families with babies in the NICU by removing the financial burden of finding parking near hospitals.
Plans for a new Chicago White Sox stadium in the South Loop have residents near the existing ballpark in Bridgeport concerned, not just because the team might be leaving, but also what might be coming nearby.
A new report from the University of Illinois Chicago said federal immigration enforcement led to $1.26 billion in unspent money at retail establishments and restaurants in Cook County.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
A new Whole Foods Market is coming to Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.
More than 100 Black-owned businesses were showcased at Soldier Field Sunday for Black on the Block.
The stage was set and the air was humid as rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, took the stage for the first of two Chicago concerts at Soldier Field Thursday night.
James Fulton Engstrom, now a healthy teenager, was born without a pulse in 2010 — and his survival is the miracle the Catholic Church credited to Fulton Sheen's intercession, clearing the way for beatification.
The Met's decision to highlight the work by designer John Galliano sparked widespread controversy due to his history of antisemitic and racist comments.
The Edgewater Music Festival was under way this weekend on Chicago's north lakefront.
People around the world, including Chicago, continued to gather Wednesday to pay tribute to the late Dolly Parton.
Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of then-U.S. Senate candidate Charles Percy, was found beaten and stabbed to death in her Kenilworth home on Sept. 18, 1966. John Drummond has this look at the still-unsolved case from the Channel 2 News on Sept. 18, 1991.
A lead researcher at Anthropic, the artificial intelligence firm, said he believes there is a more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" within the next decade.
A woman from Hazel Crest is charged in a fatal rollover crash on I-57 in Harvey over the holiday weekend that injured seven people, including four toddlers, and killed a baby.
Meteorologist Shane Hinton has the extended forecast.
Waubonsee Community College will cut the ribbon on Wednesday at a new food pantry on their Sugar Grove campus.
Questions swirled Wednesday morning about what led to a school bus hitting and killing a 6-year-old girl in Frankfort, Illinois, the day before.
A Delta Air Lines flight from New York declared an emergency as it landed in Chicago on Tuesday.
A woman from Hazel Crest is charged in a fatal rollover crash on I-57 in Harvey over the holiday weekend that injured seven people, including four toddlers, and killed a baby.
McHenry County officials are warning residents that email scammers are targeting people who have submitted zoning or permit requests.
Police say a drone helped officers save a little boy's life Monday afternoon in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Several lawsuits are challenging Illinois' medical aid in dying law that is set to take effect on Sept. 12, including one in federal court arguing the law discriminates against people with disabilities.
Back in 2023, ISP got a $10 million grant from the Illinois Secretary of State's Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council.
Two years before dozens of decomposing bodies were found inside the South Chicago Chapel funeral home, police in nearby Evergreen Park found two bodies in the owners' minivan outside their home.
Hundreds of people are suing the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, where they say they were sexually abused by staff. For the first time, survivors detailed their experience exclusively to CBS News Chicago.
Why has the family that runs South Chicago Chapel, where 56 decomposing bodies were found this month, never faced criminal charges, despite a history of mishandling human remains?
Milwaukee extended its NL Central lead to nine games over Chicago by coming from behind to defeat the Cubs for a second straight day.
Chicago's Kyle Teel hit his second homer in two games and singled. Munetaka Murakami struck out four times.
Braxton Jones will be the Chicago Bears' starting left tackle for Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers. It's the fifth straight season he will start there, after beating out three others for the job during training camp.
Plans for a new Chicago White Sox stadium in the South Loop have residents near the existing ballpark in Bridgeport concerned, not just because the team might be leaving, but also what might be coming nearby.
The Cubs fell eight games back of the MLB-leading Brewers in the NL Central after losing the opener of this three-game series.
Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of then-U.S. Senate candidate Charles Percy, was brutally murdered in her family's home in the affluent North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth in 1966. The case has never been solved.
Two Chicago men have been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for carjacking a Chicago family at gunpoint in the backyard of their home in the Beverly neighborhood in 2023.
Gaming machines were irreparably damaged when burglars hit a restaurant in Schaumburg, Illinois, early Tuesday.
Prosecutors say Corie Walsh was actively texting in a group about the Lindsay Clancy case hours before her 2-year-old son Barrett died, though they said they do not believe it was a copycat case.
A woman was set to appear in court Monday in a shooting that left a man dead in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood last week.
