There ’s just something about summer in Chicago that earn you want to go salute in a park , especially when live music is involved . In that sprightliness , we scoured the metropolis ’s summer lineup to find all of the season ’s upcoming occasion for al fresco rocking , from high - minded vino sipping at Ravinia to full - throated gray mullet company in Tinley Park . permit ’s make this summer numeration , people .
Jack Johnson, Bahamas
Future, Migos, Tory Lanez
U2
Spring Awakening Music Festival
Chicago Blues Festival
Rise Against, Deftones, Thrice
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
John Legend
Elvis Costello and the Imposters
Otis Taylor, Ben Sollee & Kentucky Native
Old Town School of Folk Music
Paul Simon
Iron Maiden, Ghost
Seu Jorge
No BS! Brass Band, Dayme Arocena
Willie Nelson and Family
Aretha Franklin
Don Henley
Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold
La La Land in Concert
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Chris Stapleton
Sammy Hagar and the Circle
Gregory Porter, The Tomeka Reid Quartet
Hurray for the Riff Raff, Matthew Santos
Windy City Lakeshake
Gipsy Kings
Common
Def Leppard, Poison, Tesla
Body/Head, Diamond Terrifier Cipher, FACS
Rammstein
Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs
Diana Krall
Lady Wray
Dead and Company
The Moody Blues
Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield
Styx, REO Speedwagon, Don Felder
Guster, Dispatch, Esme Patterson
The Beach Boys, The Temptations
311, New Politics, The Skints
Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie
Nine Worlds Ensemble
Third Eye Blind, Silversun Pickups
Buddy Guy, Booker T. Jones
Boston, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Sheryl Crow
Sam Hunt, Maren Morris, Chris Janson
Slightly Stoopid, Iration, J Boog
Natalie Prass, Angelica Garcia
Chicago, The Doobie Brothers
Toto La Momposina, Xenia Rubinos
Pitchfork Music Festival
Chicago Open Air
Phish
OneRepublic, Fitz and the Tantrums
Jimmy Buffett, Huey Lewis
James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt
Big Thief, Overcoats
Drive-By Truckers, Honeysuckle
Umphrey’s McGee
Blondie, Garbage
Jill Scott, Bell Biv Devoe, Kelly Rowland, Nelly
Vans Warped Tour
Violent Femmes, Echo and the Bunnymen
Andrew Bird, Esperanza Spalding, Mucca Pazza
Mamby on the Beach
Goo Goo Dolls, Phillip Phillips
Amadou and Mariam, Frank Waln
Paul McCartney
Goo Goo Dolls w/ Collective Soul
Stephen Stills and Judy Collins
Dierks Bentley, Cole Swindell, Jon Pardi
The Roots
Incubus, Jimmy Eat World
Lollapalooza
Tony Bennett
Rod Stewart
Darius Rucker
Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, Bouncing Souls
Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience
Billy Joel
Carlos Santana
Florida Georgia Line, Backstreet Boys, Nelly
Nickelback, Daughtry
Kings of Leon
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: A Tribute to Ira Gershwin
Punch Brothers
Dashboard Confessional, All-American Rejects
Coldplay
Pretty Lights
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lady Antebellum, Kelsea Ballerini, Brett Young
Green Day
Lady Gaga
Alanis Morissette
Zac Brown Band
John Mellencamp
Pentatonix
Lifehouse, Switchfoot
Depeche Mode
North Coast Music Festival
Michael Bolton, Gladys Knight
John Mayer
UB40
Deep Purple, Alice Cooper
Sublime With Rome, The Offspring
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Young the Giant, Cold War Kids, Joywave
Stevie Nicks
Riot Fest
Smokey Robinson
Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge
TLC, Biz Markie, Mark McGrath
Counting Crows, Matchbox Twenty
Sturgill Simpson
AAHH! Fest
Brad Paisley, Dustin Lynch
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