Checking in at Grant Park Post-Lolla

In our quick Lolla recap on Monday we pondered how Grant Park would look post-Lolla given the massive amounts of rain that fell throughout the weekend. Well we're not the only people who were questioning this. The Chicago Sun-Times had an informative article on the topic:

The desecrated Grant Park looks like a rock ‘n’ roll battlefield — the fields are muddy and bare, waste is strewn about and a stench of stagnant water and stale beer lingers in the air.

With Sunday thunderstorms flooding the last day of Lollapalooza, it will be weeks — and tens of thousands of dollars — before the aftermath of the festival is repaired, officials said.

“This is probably one of the worst [aftermaths],” said Bob O’Neill, president of the Grant Park Conservancy. “The turf damage is substantial, bushes were trampled ... there’s a little bit of damage to some gardens.”