Festivalgoers reflect on Lollapalooza’s audience, prices and artists on the final day of the festival.

After weather delays, Lindsay Perrin took advantage of the endless mud at Lollapalooza.

While some attendees were disappointed in the decreased set times and cut performances on the third day of the festival, many people still enjoyed the muddy day at Grant Park.

Despite rain, Lollapalooza attendees enjoyed the local artists who performed on day two of the festival.

Lollapalooza’s 35th year festival features a heavy focus on rock, EDM and the debut of P-Pop in Chicago.

Before hundreds of thousands of fans fill Grant Park this weekend, workers across Chicago have spent weeks preparing the city for one of its biggest events of the year.

The Chicago Park District runs a multi-week ceramics course in the Irving Park neighborhood that is designed to be accessible to Deaf, hard of hearing, blind and visually impaired artists.

Since graduating in May 2025, Columbia alum Qianyi Wang has been balancing multiple jobs while maintaining her temporary work authorization as an international student.

As federal immigration enforcement increases across Chicago, some Latino residents, including U.S. citizens, say they fear being detained. One Pilsen resident has largely stayed home, worried he will be targeted simply because he is Latino. Fernando has rarely left his home in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood since immigration enforcement intensified in the city this fall. A U.S. citizen, he spends his days working on cars and household projects, avoiding even routine trips for groceries out of fear that he could be detained by federal agents. The Chronicle is withholding his last name at his request because he fears being targeted. Fernando crossed the border from Mexico with his brother in 1982. After a brief detention, he was released and later granted asylum in 1986. In the early 1980s, asylum procedures were far less formalized than today. He became a U.S. citizen in 2008, more than two decades after first arriving. He has since built a life in Chicago, he said, but now fears it could be taken away.

Through self-produced shows and grassroots organizing, Latino musicians are rebuilding community spaces rooted in resistance and belonging during a period of heightened fear around immigration enforcement.

Hunter Prehn Lindstrom is working toward becoming a USDA-certified butcher.