Cleanup begins in Douglass Park after rain-soaked Riot Fest left it a mud pit
It’s a wrap on Riot Fest 2026. But one big reminder of the weekend lingers in Douglass Park: all the mud, after heavy rains over the weekend turned the grounds into a quagmire by the end of the final set.One Little Village community group, Únete La Villita, posted on Instagram Monday that the park is “completely destroyed,” adding concerns about the “long-term effects of the fest that’s ‘just three days’” and adding they will document the restoration over the next year.Riot Fest founder Mike…
READ NEXT
More on the wire
FROM THE PUBLISHER
A beluga whale has died at the Shedd Aquarium after being transferred there from the shuttered Marineland aquarium in Ontario, Canada.It was the third from Marineland to die at the Shedd, and the fourth from Marineland overall. Osiris, a 26-year-old female beluga of "clinical concern," died Monday, the Shedd announced in a blog post. Her condition had been closely monitored since she arrived at the Shedd in late July, and she had periods of nutritional and social progress, the Shedd said.…
FROM THE PUBLISHER
An endangered Englewood mansion built by the Victorian era man-about-town and gambler James "Big Jim" O'Leary — his mother and her cow were blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire — should be granted preliminary landmark status, the city's two leading preservation groups said Monday.Landmarks Illinois and Preservation Chicago told the Commission on Chicago Landmarks' Program Committee that the designation is needed to protect the vacant 125-year-old O'Leary Mansion, 726 W. Garfield Blvd.,…
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The worst defeat so far in coach Ben Johnson’s time with the Bears was unquestionably the second game of last season, when he returned to Ford Field in Detroit — his former home turf as the Lions’ offensive coordinator — and left with a 52-21 loss.The second-worst might have been the second game of this season on Sunday — and that was before quarterback Caleb Williams pulled his hamstring midway through the fourth quarter of a sloppy, soggy 9-3 loss to the Vikings.After talking openly about…