Two other festivals have since arrived at Douglass Park: Summer Smash, which debuted in 2018, and Heatwave, which debuted this July. Local neighbors’ groups like Concerned Citizens of Riot Fest and Unete La Villita say they want Riot Fest out of their neighborhood, arguing that music festivals do not benefit the community and that public parks should not be privatized and fenced off. People from surrounding communities such as North Lawndale and Little Village say they were not consulted about its arrival. Event organizers had to pay $150,000 in repairs and find another location.ĭouglass Park started hosting the festival in 2015, and similar complaints immediately followed. In addition to the damage, residents said that areas of the park were shut down for months after the festival, rendering soccer and baseball fields unusable. Originally held indoors at Congress Theater, it moved to Humboldt Park, where the outdoor music festival was ousted by residents in 2014 after heavy rain and foot traffic damaged sections of the park.
Around 40,000 people attend on each of its three days. and brings an array of well-known performers of varying genres including punk, hip-hop, rock, alternative, and metal. Riot Fest is one of the largest independently owned music festivals in the U.S. While Riot Fest organizers are in the thick of preparations, residents are bracing themselves for another wave of crowds, noise, traffic, and litter following festivals Summer Smash and Heatwave-in what has amounted to a whole summer without proper access to their neighborhood park.
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