Thursday, August 4, 2011

90,000 Lollapaloozians Invade Grant Park Tomorrow

We haven't been covering Lollapalooza as closely as we have in past years, but we still love it. And apparently a lot of other people do too. Two weeks ago, the Chicago Sun-Times (and various other media outlets) reported that this years edition is the largest ever:

If you've been procrastinating your purchase of Lollapalooza tickets this year, you're too late. The seventh annual concert festival in Chicago's Grant Park sold out on Friday, according to promoter C3 Presents.

That means 90,000 people will attend each day of the three-day festival, Aug. 5-7, for a record total of 270,000. Last year's top attendance was 240,000.

Amazing stuff and honestly its surprising to us. Although the festival is a great time and the location can't be beat for a music festival, it appears to have a weaker line-up than normal (in our opinion). Obviously that's not stopping a ton of people from coming down to Grant Park and the Sloop for three days of good times and amazing people watching:

That's more than worth the price of admission.

Anyway, if you're going who are you excited to see?