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Lollapalooza 2018: 2 arrested and 46 sent to hospital on day 1 of Chicago music festival

While one person was arrested for battery, the other was released without charges. Most hospitalizations were cases of people suffering alcohol poisoning or minor trauma.

BY SURAJ PRABHU

PUBLISHED AUG 3, 2018

Lollapalooza returned on Thursday (August 2) for its 22nd edition. As usual, the music festival goes down this year at Chicago's Grant Park across four days (Aug 2 - Aug 5) and will see a footfall of around 100,000 enthusiastic festival goers on each of those days. With big headlining acts that include the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd and Jack White, and hundreds of other exciting performances to look forward to, it's no surprise that the festival draws some of the highest numbers every year. Of course, handling the logistics for such a massive event is always a challenge and no matter how smoothly things are planned, there are always some mishaps that are bound to occur, and Lollapalooza 2018 has already seen its fair bit already with day 1 now done and dusted.