Riot Fest opened in Douglass Park Friday with headliner My Chemical Romance. The Chicago-born music festival runs through Sunday with big bands, crowds, anticipation and — of course — mosh pits.
A fan crowd surfs during a performance by The Wonder Years at Riot Fest in Chicago’s Douglass Park on Sept. 16, 2022.
As Riot Fest opened, crowds streamed in all afternoon, with no in-person protests spotted other than “NO RIOT FEST IN OUR PARKS” spray painted on a fence. Inside, lawns filled up quickly, even by midafternoon.“I’ve been waiting literally years,” said Emily Kelly, a student at Illinois State University in town for the fest. She had tickets to see them in 2020 when they were first slated to headline and the fest was shut down by the pandemic.
“If you feel like you want to get out, if you feel like you’re gonna pass out, there are people here to help you,” he said. Representatives for the festival told the Tribune they would look into questions of crowd sizes but have not yet responded.At the end of the night, My Chemical Romance closed its second encore with “Cancer” and the crowds shifted toward the exit. It was slow going, some waiting 45 minutes or more to exit.
Lines for food vendors inside the park wound their way from the food tents, back past the carnival rides in the midway and across the baseball diamonds by the Rise stage.
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