Lollapalooza 2018: Increased Security In Place For 4-Day Festival
Lollapalooza, one of the largest and best-known music festivals in the world, gets underway later today.
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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.
When the best of Chicago's cuisine converges in Grant Park this Wednesday for five days of food and music, drivers will need to plan ahead to avoid road closures the city will put into place starting at 4 p.m. on July 16.
Chicago will celebrate the very best of the city's expansive restaurant scene for five days at the 38th annual Taste of Chicago, starting Wednesday at Grant Park.
Friday's marches were timed for the 19th anniversary of the infamous Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.
Bruno Mars, Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, and The Weeknd will headline this year's Lollapalooza music festival at Grant Park.
"To meet someone that was so successful and as prominent as Keith Haring was life-changing."
About 8:05 p.m., a group of between eight and 10 males and females approached three people in the 500 block of South Michigan, according to Chicago Police. The three victims were knocked to the ground and the suspects stole their personal property.
The 21-story Blackstone Hotel has windows overlooking Grant Park, including the stages where bands performed at Lollapalooza.
The man was changing a tire on a bus near the intersection of Michigan and Congress when the the tow truck cable lifting the bus snapped.
Crews were busy cleaning up Grant Park on Monday, after Lollapalooza wrapped up four days of music and festivities on the city's lakefront.
In case of severe weather, Grant Park might evacuate, and the Grant Park and Millennium Park garages will serve as shelters.
Tens of thousands of Pokemon fans are poke-mad after technical glitches turned Saturday's Pokemon Go Festival into a huge flop.
The crash happened at 11:07 p.m. on in the southbound lanes of Lake Shore at Balbo, according to Fire Media Affairs and Chicago Police.
Military, public safety and community leaders will gather at a downtown Chicago monument for Memorial Day commemorations. It'll include a tribute to a soldier from central Illinois killed in Afghanistan in April.
This year's edition of Taste of Chicago will feature 67 total food vendors. How will we decide?!
Organizers say they were motivated by President Donald Trump's policies toward climate change and suspicions on vaccine safety.
About two hours after they went on sale Tuesday morning, four-day general admission tickets to Lollapalooza 2017 are sold out.
One person was killed and two were seriously injured when a car slammed into a minivan early Friday at Balbo and Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park, according to Chicago Police.
A hockey league that played on a patch of asphalt in North Avenue Beach for roughly 20 years may be coming to Grant Park.
The Chicago Cubs will pay nearly $400,000 for cleanup and repairs at Grant Park, following the massive World Series victory rally there earlier this month.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Fire Department reported 33 ambulance transports, but details weren't given.
The Chicago Park District will have its work cut out for it, following the Cubs rally that drew literally millions of fans Friday to Hutchinson Field in Grant Park.
It was a party 108 years in the making, and it didn't disappoint.
Even the Chicago River was wearing blue on Friday to celebrate the World Series champion Chicago Cubs.
