County Commissioner Bridget Gainer's proposal would require a County Board vote on any amusement tax exemption that costs the city $150,000 or more. Lollapalooza currently enjoys that exemption to the tune of at least half a million dollars. more ›

In which we take a quick look at a few recent or upcoming musical releases. more ›

There's still no publicly-disclosed price tag--or time line-- for the restoration. With summer on the wane, and a current spell of pleasant weather, the limited use of the park has folks grumbling. more ›

Mayor Emanuel reiterated his intent to have an independent investigator look into the city's contract with Lollapalooza, which gives the festival's owners a hearty amusement tax exemption. more ›

Food is fuel. It’s an important thing to remember as a festival-goer, and something that Lollapalooza performers Portugal. The Man understand is important to another exhausting activity: crime fighting. more ›

Summer is a time for carefree, youthful love, and a gathering like the recent Lollapalooza is fertile ground for blossoming romance. One enterprising, lovelorn spirit took to the Craigslist online classifieds to pine for his Juliet, in an especially, um, passionate plea to rekindle the magic. more ›

First person Jim here. Let's see. My Lollapalooza weekend was preceded by Paul McCartney and ended with an epic rainstorm while the Foo Fighters played. Even for a guy like me, that has seen puh-lenty, it was a pretty epic week. So let's revisit the latter bookend and marvel at how four songs in Dave Grohl not only doesn't let a huge fucking rainstorm (which, by the way, literally had me and a bunch of other photographers cowering under the stage while we avoided mini-waterfalls pouring through the seams above) get him down, he fucking ATTACKS. more ›

At sixty bucks a pop, you really had to be a fan to buy tickets, but at two and a half hours in a mid-size venue, this was a concert that was really worth it for a hardcore fan. more ›

Last year, C3 ponied up over $200,000 in repairs to the park. Grant Park Conservancy president Bob O'Neill estimates the damage to Hutchinson Field alone could be over $80,000 more ›

Here are some final shots from the Chicagoist photos Flickr pool from Lollapalooza. more ›

As with life, music festivals are both filled with shining beacons of humanity and utter dickweeds, the latter of whom probably had a hand in stealing Portugal. The Man's van, gear, and trailer after their Lollapalooza set Sunday. more ›

There are numerous ways to experience Lollapalooza and I try to cover them all. It's exhausting, and man do your legs get a workout running all over Chicago, but in the end it's worth it. There are so many levels to the fest it's easy to just stay focused on a single one, so that's why each year we here at Chicagoist try and bring you something a little more personal at the end of the festival. more ›

Sunday saw Lollapalooza go out with a bang ... and a volley of thunderclaps as the sky opened up to soak everyone there. But we get ahead of ourselves. The day opened hot and steamy and the crowd wandering through Grant park was starting to look a little ragged. This didn't stop the kids from going insane in Perry's Stage all day long, or slow down any of the bands we saw perform. more ›

Tankboy will be on Fox Chicago's Good Day Chicago at 9:50 to talk about Lollapalooza. Tune in, if you can. more ›

Besides Lollapalooza fever here, Long Beach enacted a ban on plastic bags, people in DC thought sidewalk cafés would lead to violence 50 years ago and Shanghai celebrated Chinese Valentine's Day. more ›

The second day of Lollapalooza tends to be the one where people hit their rhythm. They probably overdid it Friday so they spend Saturday moving a little slower. It seems as if more folks are camped out in single spots or, if they are moving around, they're sampling a little of this and that. The only spot that proved the exception to the rule was Perry's Stage, which was already going into overdrive in the early afternoon. So far we've seen a bunch of great bands but none of them have matched the energy or the zeal of the kids in the aircraft hangar-sized dance tent. Let's turn things over to Kimberly Bellware to recap most of the day's events. - Tankboy more ›

We've given you some basic survival tips and now it's time to give you a few suggestions about who to see (and maybe a few bands you'll be OK skipping) this weekend at Lollapalooza. We asked a few of our writers to share their personal views so feel free to agree or disagree. We just like to get the conversation started. And this is by no means all-inclusive so let us know who you're seeing! more ›

At the rate it's going it won't be too long before Lollapalooza begins to swallow all of downtown Chicago. The festival footprint grows year after year, allowing for more space for foot traffic and larger stages, and this year the sheer scale of the goings-on is slightly stunning. Lollapalooza organizers have erected a well run city within our city for attendees' enjoyment. more ›

We've given you some basic survival tips and now it's time to give you a few suggestions about who to see (and maybe a few bands you'll be OK skipping) this weekend at Lollapalooza. We asked a few of our writers to share their personal views so feel free to agree or disagree. We just like to get the conversation started. And this is by no means all-inclusive so let us know who you're seeing! more ›

Julian "Jumpin' " Perez and house music went on to bigger things. So has Pilsen. This video reminds us of how far Pilsen has come and how far it has to go. more ›

We've given you some basic survival tips and now it's time to give you a few suggestions about who to see (and maybe a few bands you'll be OK skipping) this weekend at Lollapalooza. We asked a few of our writers to share their personal views so feel free to agree or disagree, we just like to get the conversation started. more ›

Bassist Chris Wolstenholme, from Lollapalooza headlining act Muse came to Bridgeview to run with the Chicago Fire and play a few pickup games before the fest. more ›

The last time we saw the Foo Fighters was their first show at Metro (playing with Mike Watt and Eddie Vedder's (then) wife's band. It was awesome. And now we hear they're playing there again on Saturday. Tickets are on sale in fifteen minutes. Good luck. more ›

So, if you're going we hope a few of those tips help you get more out of Lollapalooza. If you have any other questions you can leave them in the comments and we'll be happy to answer them! more ›

Mayor Emanuel's office seemed open to the idea of revisiting the tax exemption granted to Lollapalooza's organizer that saves them (or costs the city) $1 million a year in tax revenue. more ›

When Lollapalooza announced it would live stream select acts on YouTube this year we suspect quite a few folks got pretty excited if they couldn't get tickets in time or didn't want to deal with the (inevitable) heat. We wondered which bands would either make the cut or allow themselves to be broadcast all over the interwebs. Now we have the answer! more ›

Lollapalooza is still a week away, but you can start celebrating its imminent arrival tonight at Angels & Kings. Organizers have rounded up a few of the Q101 DJs left in the cold by the stations recent format change to provide the soundtrack to evening's festivities. Although, truth be told, of the four on the bill, only two were actually a DJs, another was a host of a local music show and the third, well, we're not sure what he did. But that doesn't matter! Tim Pogo, Tim, Virgin Chris Payne and Jaime Black are committed to spinning tunes to get you through the night. Just don't ask any of them to play you some Limp Bizket, we're pretty sure that's one corner of Q101's past they're all happy to have left behind. The gig kicks off at 9 p.m. and lasts until close, but we suggest getting there in the first hour since we hear there's a hosted bar by Titos vodka. more ›

Are you bummed that Lollapalooza's completely sold out and you don't have a ticket? It was announced that while those of us that'll be there will be melting in the heat you can enjoy the festival's performances from the comfort of your own living room! YouTube is partnering with the festival to stream footage all weekend long. We still don't know who is and isn't inlcuded but according to Perry Farrell you can, "Be a voyeur to this year's Lollapalooza. Watch as musicians offer their souls and the crowd devours them. You just may forget that you aren't really there." more ›

Lollapalooza announced their first wave of aftershows (and a few preshows since a number occur before the fest's Friday kick-off). The one that will probably elicit the biggest buzz, and sell out the quickest, is Death From Above 1979's show at The Metro on Thursday, August 4. After a near riot at SXSW, and a history of hard hitting shows -- they're one of the few bands to get a huge pit going at the usually mellow Pitchfork Music Festival -- their appearance in a smaller venue is one not to be missed. more ›

This year, Chef Graham Elliot will be bringing even more great food to Lollapalooza, continuing last year's efforts to improve the offerings at the festival. Elliot's Lolla work was well-received last year and promises to get even better. Eater Chicago reports that new restaurant participants include Saigon Sisters, Sola, The Gage, Henri, Jam and Wao Bow. We're particularly excited about Henri, which will be serving up a "Henri banh mi" and pork rinds with vadouvan curry. more ›