The following year, Pitchfork began hosting its own event, the Pitchfork Music Festival, at the same site. It has continued to recur in Union Park every year since, minus 2020 for pandemic reasons.

Chicago music lovers are saying goodbye to an annual staple. The 2025 Pitchfork Music Festival will not be set at Chicago's Union Park after 19 years, organizers announced on its website Monday.

The Pitchfork Festival will not take place in Chicago in 2025, apparently ending a 19-year run in the city. Organizers said they made “the difficult decision not to host” the event next summer ...

Festival goers take in a set by Grandmaster Flash on the third day of Pitchfork 2024 in Union Park. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Pitchfork Music Festival, long a staple on Chicago’s ...

Pitchfork Music Festival has announced that, after 19 years of calling Chicago home, it will not host an event in the Windy City in 2025. “As the music festival landscape continues to evolve rapidly, ...

Organizers did not say why they’re leaving Chicago, saying only that the “music festival landscape continues to evolve rapidly” and Pitchfork will hold other events. The fest has been in Chicago for ...