Chicago’s Grant Park hosted about 115,000 music fans per day during the four-day Lollapalooza festival that capped off on Sunday (August 3).

That’s according to FOX 32 Chicago, which reported on Monday (August 4), citing Lollapalooza organizers, that the annual event generated only 12 arrests while requiring 42 ambulance transports across all four days.

In previous years, nine arrests were made in 2024, 14 in 2023, 15 in 2022, 19 in 2021, and 31 in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, the report said, citing data from the City of Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications.

Street closures around Grant Park began lifting Monday morning as cleanup crews were deployed across the festival grounds. In 2023, the cleanup alone cost well over $400,000, FOX 32 said. The cleanup process reportedly involves restoration efforts like resodding, mulch insolation, watering and re-planting.

This year’s Lollapalooza featured Sabrina Carpenter headlining the T-Mobile main stage on Sunday, with surprise guests Earth, Wind & Fire, and A$AP Rocky, who performed from a life-sized helicopter.

Lollapalooza is produced by C3 Presents, which became a subsidiary of Live Nation in 2014.

The festival also saw performances from Gracie Abrams, Djo, Bleachers, T-Pain, Foster the People, Flipturn, Caroline Kingsbury, Doechii, Remi Wolf, and KATSEYE, among many others.

Other headliners from Thursday to Sunday were Tyler, The Creator, Luke Combs, Olivia Rodrigo, KORN, Australian band Rüfüs Du Sol and K-pop groups BOYNEXTDOOR and TWICE.

TWICE set the record as the first K-pop girl group to headline Lollapalooza, according to Rolling Stone. In 2022, BTS’s J-Hope became the first South Korean artist to headline Lollapalooza.

In an interview with The Korea Times on Saturday, KATSEYE’s Manon said: “It’s our first festival ever… We’ve worked so hard for it, and now we’re at a point where we’re just ready to take over the stage and let Chicago know who we are.”

KATSEYE was formed from a talent search organized by HYBE’s partnership with Universal Music Group‘s Geffen Records.

On a recent earnings call, HYBE CEO Jason Jaesang Lee said KATSEYE “had the best year in 2024 with their debut album SIS,” with their title track Touch appearing on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 for two weeks and the Global Song Chart for 13 consecutive weeks.

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