Analysis: What's Behind the Attorney General's
Investigation of Lollapalooza? 
by Jim DeRogatis 
Pop N Stuff 
6/29/2010
http://blogs.vocalo.org/jderogatis/2010/06/analysis-what%E2%80%99s-behind-the-attorney-general%E2%80%99s-investigation-of-lollapalooza/27939

The revelation that Illinois Attorney General Lisa
Madigan is investigating the giant three-day
Lollapalooza festival in Grant Park came as a shock to
the local and national music communities, and it has
left just about everyone on the concert scene wondering:
What the heck is going on?

This blog first reported last Thursday that Madigan's
office is investigating anti-trust issues stemming from
the so-called "radius" or "exclusivity clauses" that
Lollapalooza promoters C3 Presents impose on all acts
performing at the festival, prohibiting them from
playing within 300 miles of Chicago for as much as six
months before and three months after the August concert.

. . .

The 10-year deal that the city made with Lollapalooza
essentially makes Parkways Foundation and the Park
District partners in the giant concert and players in
the music industry. Approved in late 2008 and obtained
under a Freedom of Information Act request to the city,
the new deal replaces the original five-year agreement
that was negotiated in 2006 by C3's attorney Mark
Vanecko, a nephew of Mayor Daley, and it assures
Lollapalooza a home in Grant Park through 2018.

. . .

IS THE INVESTIGATION AN OUTGROWTH OF A TURF WAR BETWEEN
RIVAL CONCERT PROMOTERS JAM PRODUCTIONS AND
LOLLAPALOOZA'S C3 PRESENTS?

While the sheer size of Lollapalooza has had an impact
on every club and concert venue in Chicago-tying up more
than 120 acts every summer-the biggest hit has been on
local independent concert promoters Jam Productions,
which would otherwise book many of the alternative-
leanings acts that play the festival at indoor venues
such as the Aragon Ballroom and the Vic and Riviera
theaters.

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http://blogs.vocalo.org/jderogatis/2010/06/analysis-what%E2%80%99s-behind-the-attorney-general%E2%80%99s-investigation-of-lollapalooza/27939

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