Lollapalooza Is Expanding To 4 Days Next Year

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Dec 3, 2015 5:23PM

Photo by Annie Lesser / Chicagoist

God help us all.

Lollapalooza just announced that, in honor of its 25th anniversary (it launched as a roaming fest in 1991) it will expand from three to four days next year. That mean Lollapalooza 2016 will take place Thursday, July 28 and continue through Sunday, July 31.

This also means that the line-up will be expanding to include over 170 musical acts. So does that mean our spring concert schedule will be even lighter in Chicago due to the festival's rumored radius clause that prohibits acts from performing too close to their Lollapalooza appearance? Hopefully not.

While this probably isn't the best news for local music promoters and talent buyers, it's pretty great news for hotels and restaurants since this means the influx of tourist dollars the festival brings will stretch even longer.

We're actually pleased to see the festival expand to four days, but that's primarily because we feared that, following in he footsteps of other mega-fests like Coachella and Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza might have stretched to occupy two weekends. We'll happily take more acts with a Thursday start over that scenario.

Four-day tickets will run you $335 and single day tickets will be $120. Tickets will go on sale sometime next spring.