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Concerts and concert festivals

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Date Artist Opening act(s) Tour / concert name Attendance / Capacity Revenue Notes cite
1930 Chicagoland Music Festival 150,000
1931 John Philip Souza
1932
1933 Victor Grabel, Albert Austin Harding, Arthur Pryor (conductors) 85,000
1934 Al Jolson
1935
1936
August 21, 1937 Lily Pons
Rudy Vallee
Jascha Heifetz
Bobby Breen
1938
August 23, 1938
Performers
 Swing Jamboree, presented by Mayor Kelly's New Century Committee in associated with The Times 200,000 jitterbug concert; the so-called "Jitterbug Riot" occurred after excessively-large crowds seeking to attend overwhelmed event organizers and forced their way into the venue. [1] [2][3]
1939 Fats Waller Chicagoland Music Festival
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949 Al Jolson
1950 Alec Templeton 70,000
1951
1952
1953
1954 Liberace
Jack Webb
1955 Eddie Fisher, Mahalia Jackson, Florian ZaBach, Vic Hyde
1956 Al G. Wright, Richard Tucker, Skokie American Indians drum and bugle corps, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
1963 Lawrence Weller
August 15, 1964 Johnny Cash
June Carter
1965
1966 Final edition of the Chicagoland Music Festival
August 9, 1966 Barbra Streisand — An Evening with Barbra Streisand Tour — — First solo headliner concert in the stadium's history
July 18, 1970
Performers
 WCFL's Big Ten Summer Music Festival — —
1975 Marvin Gaye — — — Held in the "northern arena" of the stadium [1]
July 25, 1976 ZZ Top — — — Held in the "northern arena" of the stadium [4]
June 4, 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Foghat
The J. Geils Band
Climax Blues Band 		Super Bowl of Rock 80,000 — [1][5][6][7]
June 19, 1977 Pink Floyd — In the Flesh Tour 95,000 $670,000 [8][1][5][6][9][10]
July 9, 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd Point Blank 77,197 — [5][6][11]
July 10, 1977 Ted Nugent
Lynyrd Skynyrd
REO Speedwagon
Journey
.38 Special 		Super Bowl of Rock: Game #3 — — [1][5][6][12]
August 13, 1977 Peter Frampton Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Rick Derringer
UFO 		— — [1] _____
July 8, 1978 The Rolling Stones Journey
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
Peter Tosh 		The Rolling Stones US Tour 1978 70,725 / 70,725 $919,425[13]
August 26, 1978 Parliament-Funkadelic The Bar-Kays
Con Funk Shun
A Taste of Honey 		Funk Fest — —
July 19, 1980 Smokey Robinson The O'Jays — —
August 10–18, 1983
Performers
 ChicagoFest — —
August 9, 1985 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band — Born in the U.S.A. Tour 71,222 / 71,222 $1,228,500 [4][5][6][14][15]____
July 31, 1987 Madonna Level 42 Who's That Girl World Tour 47,407 / 47,407 or 46,923 $1,066,658 or $751,854__ [4][16][17] _____
July 29, 1990 Paul McCartney — The Paul McCartney World Tour 55,630 / 55,630 $1,807,975 [4][5][6][18]___
June 22, 1991 Grateful Dead — — — [4]
June 25, 1992 Steve Miller Band [4][5][6][19][20][21]
June 26, 1992
June 17, 1993 Sting [4]
June 18, 1993
June 19, 1993
July 12, 1994 Pink Floyd — The Division Bell Tour 51,981 / 51,981 $2,056,105 [5][6][22] __
July 23, 1994 Grateful Dead Traffic — —
July 24, 1994
September 11, 1994 The Rolling Stones Lenny Kravitz Voodoo Lounge Tour 90,303 / 90,303 $4,194,320 [4][5][6][23][24][25][26] _____
September 12, 1994
July 8, 1995 Grateful Dead The Band [1][5][6][27]
July 9, 1995 Final concert by the band
July 11, 1995 Pearl Jam Bad Religion
Otis Rush 		Vitalogy Tour — — Played on the Grateful Dead's stage
September 14, 1996 Little Feat Taj Mahal — —
June 27, 1997 U2 Fun Lovin' Criminals and Rage Against the Machine PopMart Tour 116,912 / 127,500 $5,956,587 [4][28]___
June 28, 1997
June 29, 1997
July 18, 1997
Performers
 Vans Warped Tour — —
September 23, 1997 The Rolling Stones Blues Traveler Bridges to Babylon Tour 107,186 / 107,186 $6,260,000 [4][5][6][29][30][31][32]
September 25, 1997
May 10, 1998 George Strait — Country Music Festival Tour — —
April 25, 1999
May 13, 2000 Wilco — — —
June 29, 2000 Dave Matthews Band Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
Ozomatli 		The Summer 2000 Tour 115,006 / 115,006 $5,175,270
June 30, 2000
June 16, 2001 NSYNC BBMak
3LW
Dream 		PopOdyssey 85,650 / 103,903 $4,739,359
June 17, 2001
July 6, 2001 Dave Matthews Band Buddy Guy
Angélique Kidjo 		The Summer 2001 Tour 103,675 / 103,675 $4,834,864 [33] _______
July 7, 2001
September 10, 2005 The Rolling Stones Los Lonely Boys A Bigger Bang 55,046 / 55,046 $7,231,427 [4]_____
July 21, 2006 Bon Jovi Nickelback Have a Nice Day Tour 52,612 / 52,612 $3,988,455 [33]____
October 11, 2006 The Rolling Stones Elvis Costello and the Imposters A Bigger Bang 33,296 / 33,296 $4,020,721
June 21, 2008 Kenny Chesney Keith Urban
LeAnn Rimes
Luke Bryan
Gary Allan 		The Poets and Pirates Tour 46,463 / 48,585 $4,063,663 [4] ______
October 11–12, 2008
Performers
 — Chicago Country Music Festival — —
June 13, 2009 Kenny Chesney Lady Antebellum
Miranda Lambert
Montgomery Gentry
Sugarland 		Sun City Carnival Tour 48,763 / 50,109 $3,184,606
September 12, 2009 U2 Snow Patrol U2 360° Tour 135,872 / 135,872 $13,860,480 [4][34][35][36][37]
September 13, 2009
June 12, 2010
Performers
 The Bamboozle Roadshow 2010 — — Event held in parking lot
June 19, 2010 Eagles Dixie Chicks
JD & the Straight Shot 		Long Road Out of Eden Tour 29,233 / 32,420 $3,186,493
July 7, 2010 deadmau5 Rye Rye
Brazilian Girls 		— —
July 30, 2010 Bon Jovi Kid Rock, Twisted Brown Trucker and 7th Heaven The Circle Tour 95,959 / 95,959 $8,606,259
July 31, 2010
July 5, 2011 U2 Interpol U2 360° Tour 64,297 / 64,297 $5,786,335 [4] ______
August 23, 2011 Wayne Baker Brooks Sugar Blue — —
June 16–17, 2012 _____________ Spring Awakening Music Festival
July 7, 2012 Kenny Chesney
Tim McGraw 		Jake Owen
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals 		Brothers of the Sun Tour 51,100 / 51,100 $5,109,399
August 2, 2012 _____________ Terrapin 5K & Music Festival
June 14–16, 2013 _____________ Spring Awakening Music Festival
July 12, 2013 Bon Jovi The J. Geils Band Because We Can 45,178 / 45,178 $4,690,204 [4][5][6][38][39]
July 22, 2013 Jay-Z
Justin Timberlake 		DJ Cassidy Legends of the Summer 52,671 / 52,671 $5,715,152
August 8, 2013 _____________ Terrapin 5K & Music Festival
August 10, 2013 Taylor Swift Ed Sheeran
Casey James
Austin Mahone 		The Red Tour 50,809 / 50,809 $4,149,148 [4][16]
June 13–15, 2014 _____________ Spring Awakening Music Festival
July 24, 2014 Beyoncé
Jay-Z 		— On the Run Tour 50,035 / 50,035 $5,783,396 [40][41]
August 29, 2014 One Direction 5 Seconds of Summer Where We Are Tour 104,617 / 104,617 $9,446,247 [42]
August 30, 2014
August 31, 2014 Luke Bryan Dierks Bentley
Lee Brice
Cole Swindell
DJ Rock 		That's My Kind of Night Tour 50,529 / 50,529 $3,754,362 Broke the record the highest-attended country music concert at Soldier Field. [43]
June 6, 2015 Kenny Chesney
Miranda Lambert 		Brantley Gilbert
Chase Rice
Old Dominion 		The Big Revival Tour 43,630 / 48,278 $3,776,207 Chesney was the main headliner of the tour, while Lambert joined as the co-headliner only for the Chicago show. [44][45][46]
June 12, 2015
Performers
 Spring Awakening Music Festival [47][48]
June 13, 2015
Performers
June 14, 2015
Performers
July 27, 2015
Performers
 Woofstock: Road to the Puppy Bowl Sponsored by Animal Planet, broadcaster of the Puppy Bowl [49]
July 3, 2015 Grateful Dead surviving band members — Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead 210,283 / 210,283 $30,683,274 50th anniversary concerts[50]
July 4, 2015
July 5, 2015
July 18, 2015 Taylor Swift Vance Joy
Shawn Mendes
HAIM 		The 1989 World Tour 110,109 / 110,109 $11,469,887 Andy Grammer and Serayah were special guests. [16][51][52][53][54][55]
July 19, 2015 Sam Hunt, Andreja Pejić and Lily Donaldson were special guests.
August 23, 2015 One Direction Icona Pop On the Road Again Tour 41,527 / 41,527 $3,382,655 [56][57][58][59]
May 27, 2016 Beyoncé Rae Sremmurd The Formation World Tour 89,270 / 89,270 $11,279,890 [60][61]
May 28, 2016 DJ Scratch
July 1, 2016 Guns N' Roses Alice in Chains Not in This Lifetime... Tour 82,172 / 96,088 $8,843,684
July 3, 2016
July 23, 2016 Coldplay Alessia Cara
Foxes 		A Head Full of Dreams Tour 95,323 / 95,323 $10,215,572 Show was cut short due to inclement weather. [62]
July 24, 2016
June 3, 2017 U2 The Lumineers The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 105,078 / 105,078 $13,435,925
June 4, 2017
June 18, 2017 Metallica Avenged Sevenfold
Local H
Mix Master Mike 		WorldWired Tour 51,041 / 51,041 $6,093,976 [63]
August 17, 2017 Coldplay AlunaGeorge
Izzy Bizu 		A Head Full of Dreams Tour 52,726 / 52,726 $6,026,402
June 1, 2018 Taylor Swift Camila Cabello
Charli XCX 		Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour 105,208 / 105,208 $14,576,697
June 2, 2018
July 28, 2018 Kenny Chesney Thomas Rhett
Old Dominion
Brandon Lay 		Trip Around The Sun Tour 52,189 / 52,189 $5,751,195
August 10, 2018 Beyoncé
Jay-Z 		Chloe X Halle and DJ Khaled On the Run II Tour 86,602 / 86,602 $12,303,099
August 11, 2018 During show, "Summer" was added to the setlist. "Apeshit" was also performed for the first time in its entirety with choreography and background dancers.
October 4, 2018 Ed Sheeran Snow Patrol
Lauv 		÷ Tour 47,263 / 47,263 $4,339,350
May 11, 2019 BTS — Love Yourself World Tour 88,156 / 88,156 $13,345,795 [64]
May 12, 2019
June 21, 2019 The Rolling Stones St. Paul and the Broken Bones No Filter Tour 98,228 / 98,228 $21,741,564
June 25, 2019 Whiskey Myers
August 26, 2021 Kanye West — Kanye West Presents: The Donda Album Experience Third listening event before the release of his album Donda.
May 28, 2022 Coldplay H.E.R.Drama Music of the Spheres World Tour 107,072 / 107,072 $10,969,930
May 29, 2022
June 25, 2022 Kenny Chesney Florida Georgia Line

Old Dominion Michael Franti & Spearhead

Here and Now Tour 52,792 / 52,792 $6,054,015
July 24, 2022 The Weeknd Kaytranada
Mike Dean 		After Hours til Dawn Stadium Tour 48,887 / 48,887 $7,961,796 [65][66]
August 5, 2022 Elton John N/A Farewell Yellow Brick Road 48,813 / 48,813 $7,118,811
August 19, 2022 Red Hot Chili Peppers The Strokes
Thundercat 		2022 Global Stadium Tour 47,019 / 47,019 $7,500,942 [67]
August 20, 2022 Bad Bunny N/A World's Hottest Tour 50,854 / 50,854 $14,109,590
September 3, 2022 Rammstein Duo Abélard Rammstein Stadium Tour 47,263 / 48,000 $9,051,337
June 2, 2023 Taylor Swift Girl in Red
Owenn 		The Eras Tour First female act in history to sell out three shows on a single tour.[68]
June 3, 2023
June 4, 2023 Muna
Gracie Abrams
July 22, 2023 Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour 97,686 / 97,686 $30,115,863
July 23, 2023
July 29, 2023 Ed Sheeran Khalid
Cat Burns 		+-=÷× Tour 73,015 / 73,015 $8,054,888
September 15, 2023 Karol G Agudelo
Young Miko 		Mañana Será Bonito Tour
June 15, 2024 Kenny Chesney
Zac Brown Band 		Megan Moroney
Uncle Kracker 		Sun Goes Down 2024 Tour
June 27, 2024 The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Tour
June 30, 2024
August 9, 2024 Metallica Pantera
Mammoth WVH 		M72 World Tour
August 11, 2024 Five Finger Death Punch
Ice Nine Kills
August 24, 2024 Pink Sheryl Crow
KidCutUp
The Script		 P!NK: Summer Carnival




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Soldier Field during Fare Thee Well

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Soldier Field configured for 360° Tour in 2009
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble were among the headliners of 1983's Chicago Fest.



Pageants

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October 9, 1924 "Chicago Day" event, which featured the formal dedication and opening of the stadium


  • October 9, 1924: "Chicago Day" event, marking the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, attended by a crowd of 60,000. The event contained the formal dedication and official opening of the stadium. The event included military troops partaking in a mock battle, equine performances by riders from the 14th Cavalry's Troop A, and a semi re-enactment of the Great Chicago Fire with firemen (including ten who actually had fought the Great Fire) fighting the fire using Fire King No. 1 (Chicago's first pump engine). In the re-enactment, a cow knocked over a lantern (according to lore), a replica of the O'Leary barn was burned down, and firemen used modern equipment to fight a fire in a mock-up of a three-story building. Following this spectacle there were police drills, performances by two police quartets, and a polo match. The teams in the polo match were led by Chicago Tribune owner Robert R. McCormick and Hotel Sherman manager Frank Bering. McCormick's team won 5–4.[1][33][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99]




  • August 12, 1933, coinciding with the Fair's Negro Day, an African American pageant entitled Epic of a Race was performed at Soldier Field. Chandler Owen, who headed the organization of Negro Day events, employed author and WJJD radio staffer Andrew Dobson as the author and theatrical producer and dance instructor Sammy Dyer as the director of the production. Carl Sandburg was consulted by Dobson on the historical accuracy of his script. Renowned actor Richard B. Harrison was the master of ceremonies for the event, which featured 1,500 performers, about 3,000 singers, music by the 8th Infantry Regiment Band, and portrayed 11 different historic episodes.[1][99]


In 1934, 60,000 spectators attended O' Sing a New Song, a pageant held at Soldier Field for the Worlds Fair's second Negro Day. The pageant was conceived by Associated Negro Press editor and Chicago Defender columnist Nahum Daniel Brascher and produced by notable author Noble Sissle and notable musician Eubie Blake. Sissle worked with DownBeat reporter Onah Spencer on writing the script. Widely renown musicians Harry Lawrence Freeman, W. C. Handy, Nathaniel Clark Smith, and Jimmy Mundy contributed to the production. Other contributing musicians included J. Wesley Jones, Will Marion Cook and J. Rosamond Johnson. Other notable performers included Richard B. Harrison (who served as the narrator). Among the most notable performers in the pageant was Bill Robinson. The production required 5,000 vocalists and 3,500 dancers. 200 men performed military maneuvers in a segment portraying black contributions to the armed-forces. A group of Zulus partook in a segment of the show. The show was opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who pressed a button in the White House which remotely turned on the stadium's lighting. This intentionally mirrored President Grover Cleveland similarly opening the World's Columbian Exposition from the White House by pressing a button that turned-on the fairground's lights.[1]


  • In 1934, a Celtic cultural pageant, Pageant of the Celt, was performed at Soldier Field. It was narrated by Micheál MacLiammoir. The pageant required a 1,000-person choir. It proved so popular that a second performance was given at Soldier Field.[1]
  • In 1937, 50,000 attended a pageant celebrating the contributions of Polish Chicagoans held as part of Chicago's Charter Jubilee.[1]
  • A 1966 pageant celebrating 1,000 years of Christianity in Poland was the last large pageant to be held at Soldier Field.[1]

Opening and closing ceremonies to sporting competitions

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2006 Gay Games opening ceremony
2006 Gay Games opening ceremony
  • September 5, 1924: opening day of the first dedicatory event at the stadium, an athletics meet with policemen as participants. This event was a fundraiser for the Chicago Police Benevolent Association, which provided support for police widows and officers disabled in the line of action. The meet's official opening ceremony on the second day featured 1,200 police officers parading through the stadium, fireworks, and music by two police bands, among other entertainment. The contests in the event included a chariot race and a game of motorcycle polo. The opening ceremony was attended by 45,000 spectators. Events raising funds for Chicago's Policemen and Firemen Benevolent funds were a mainstay at Soldier Field until 1971.[1][115][116][117][118] The hammer throw event had been held the previous day, "to avoid any possibility of an accident".[119]



August 27, 1959: Soldier Field hosted the opening ceremonies of the 1959 Pan American Games.[1][97] The opening was held in sunny 90 °F (32 °C) heat, and was attended by 40,000 spectators.


Opening ceremony to the Century of Progress exposition

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American Legion Fourth of July shows

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  • July 4, 1926: marking the nation's sesquicentennial (150th anniversary), the Loyal Order of Moose arranged an Independence Day program for Soldier Field.[1] Precursor events

Shows also featured sporting competitions, such as polo matches, automobile races, and games of American football.


  • July 4, 1938: as part of the American Legion Fourth of July show held at Soldier Field, a 124th Artillery team played a Cuban army team to a 3–3 tie in a polo match. Also featured in the event were color guards as well as drum and bugle corps.[1][130]

Polo match was part of the 1940 show [131]


  • July 4, 1970 Soldier Field's final auto racing event took place, with drag races being organized during the American Legion's annual Independence Day celebrations.[1]


  • July 4, 1972 50,000 spectators attended the annual American Legion show.[1]


  • July 4, 1978 18,000 attended the 1978 American Legion show.[1]
  • July 4, 1979: 15,000 attended the 1979 American Legion show.[1]



War shows

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Worlds fair 1933 and 1934

  • In 1933, attendance for the stadium's annual war show was especially high.[1]
  • In 1934 attendance for the annual war show was high. Every night the show would end with a re-enactment of the World War I Battle of Cantigny.[1]


  • In 1937 attendance for the annual war show was high.[1]
  • September 2–12, 1942 a total of 789,915 spectators attended performances of an army war show.[133]


War bond shows

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September 16, 1943: a war bond show was held at Soldier Field as part of the national effort to sell war bonds. Performers included Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Fred Astaire. Harpo Marx, James Cagney, as well as the Great Lakes Naval Training Station' band and choir. The show raised approximately $200 million.[1] Bond shows were also held in 1944 and 1945.[1]


June 16, 1944 Orson Welles hosted a radio show at Soldier Field to benefit the Fifth War Loan Drive.[134]

May 20, 1945 Soldier Field hosted a war bond show in connection with the fifth annual I am an American Day. The event included the presentation by General Alexander Vandegrift of the Medal of Honor to Nora Witek, whose son Frank Witek had been killed-in-action in Guam, as well as a reenactment of the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima during the battle of the same name. The flag-raising reenactment at Soldier Field was portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film Flags of Our Fathers. Performers at the show included Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.[1]


Circuses

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Ringling



In September 1944 the Ringling Brothers Circus performed a 14-day engagement. These were amongst the Circus' first shows after the Hartford Circus Fire in July 1944 (which had resulted in over 165 deaths and 700 injuries). Due to the fire, the performances at Soldier Field were performed in the open-air, rather than under a big top. The final Sunday attracted 14,000 spectators for the matinee performance and 8,000 for the night performance. On Labor Day 9,000 attended the afternoon performance. The Circus' final performance (which occurred on a Monday night) was attended by 4,500. Excluding additional numbers that attended a 'Bond Night', the Circus attracted 145,000 despite unfavorable weather that occurred most of the opening week.[135][136][137][138]


In 1975, The Emmet Kelly Jr. Circus, organized by Chicago Park District superintendent Edmund Kelly, performed in Soldier Field's north end for several nights beginning on June 14. Its headlining performer was Emmet Kelly Jr. playing the circus clown made famous by Emmet Kelly Sr., Wearie Willie.[1]

Stunt shows

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Over the years, Soldier Field was the site of a number of stunt show performances.<name=stadiumanditscity/>

  • Over 98,000 spectators attended a 1939 stunt show starring "Lucky" Lee Lott at Soldier Field.[1][33][139]

In 1953, Joie Chitwood brought his "Tournament of Thrills" racing event to the stadium, which included both auto races and motorsport stunts.[140] A 1964 event at the stadium, which also featured races and stunts, was similarly titled the "Tournament of Thrills".[1]

Cultural festivals

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  • In 1933, celebration the 300th anniversary of the first Swedish to immigrate to the United States was held at Soldier Field.[1]


  • In 1995 Soldier Field hosted several ethnic and religious festivals including German, Indian, Pan-American, and Polish ones.[97]

German Day Festival

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  • September 20, 1925: Chicago's German-American community held its first annual German Day event at Soldier Field, featuring a soccer match, athletics, performances and ceremonies. The event raised funds for numerous charities. German Day events were held annually at Soldier Field until 1937, regularly drawing crowds in excess of 40,000.[1]



  • The 1936 edition of the German Day Festival was had a greater focus on pageantry and dancing versus the sports that were the focus of previous editions.[1]
  • The 1937 German Day Festival was the final edition of the event to be held at Soldier Field.[1]



Police shows

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  • In 1960, a total of 93,000 spectators attended two performances of the Police show, headlined by Jack Paar. Other performers included Wimpy the Clown, an acrobat named Bettina, and Trans-World Airdevils auto stunts. Stanley R. Sarbaneck, president of the benevolent association, spoke at the event.[1]

Fire shows

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  • In 1929 Soldier Field held its second-ever firefighting demonstration.[1]



Opera performances

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  • In 1933, in conjunction with Texas Day at the World's Fair, an all-Texan cast performed a production of Aida.[1][99]


Other

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  • May 22–25, 1925: the 65th Reserves and its superior outfit, the Army's Sixth Corps, sponsored the first of numerous military pageants held at Soldier Field. There were two shows a day, airplane fights in the afternoon, searchlights and antiaircraft-mimicking fireworks in the evening. The highlight of the day shows was a radio-dispatched arrangement of warplanes flying over the stadium. Audience members could hear the air-to-ground radio communication via the stadium's state-of-the-art loudspeaker system, and watch the planes respond to the ground command and perform stunts. 25,000 attended the first afternoon show, among them Vice President Charles G. Dawes. The temperature was 92 degrees. The show reenacted the Battle of the Argonne utilizing, among other things, a smoke screen and four tanks. In the first night show's reenactment an infantryman was injured when he was trampled by horses, and prior to that show a policeman partaking in a Roman-style horse race was thrown from his horse and also injured. For the final day wind kept the planes grounded, and the crowd was small due to chilly temperature that peaked near 40 degrees. Nonetheless, entire event was deemed a success.[1][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148]


  • June 24-July 4, 1932: United States Army Military Tournament is held to celebrate the bicentennial of George Washington's birth. The event included aerial demonstrations, combat enactments, artillery demonstrations, Olympic-style athletics competition, a parade, and pyrotechnic displays. Involved in the aerial demonstrations was Major Gerald E. Brower.[33] The June 24 show at the start of the eleven-day run was opened at 8pm with a flyover by four squadrons of fighter planes escorting a plane being flown by Amelia Earhart. The planers were painted to resemble a red and white eagle. Earhart later landed and made her way to the stadium, where she was given a gold medal and then developed a speech to the crowd about her flight across the atlantic the previous year. The event was cover over radio.[1][99][149][150][151]


May 18, 1941, an "I am an American Day" event was held at Soldier Field featuring Helen Hayes, Don Ameche, Pat O'Brien, Dennis Morgan, George Jessel, Ethel Waters, John Boles, and Paul Whiteman (with his orchestra).[152]

  • June 15, 1941 the janitors' unions held "Americanism Day" at Soldier Field. The US Drum and Bugle Corps, American Legion Bands, high school bands, and ROTC bands performed at the event.[33]
  • In 1948, 2x Olympic gold medalist swimmer Vicki Draves turned professional when she made her debut in Larry Crosby's "Rhapsody in Swimtime" aquatic show at Soldier Field.[153]


  • November 11, 1925: the American Legion and South Park commissioners organized a commemoration of Armistice Day marking the stadium's name change from "Grant Park Municipal Stadium" to "Soldier Field". The day began the firing of guns at sunrise. At eleven in the morning, a 21-gun salute was fired in Chicago's Grant Park and people in the 'Chicago Loop' paused, men removing their hats, and held moment of silent prayer and reflection. In the afternoon, former Governor of Illinois Frank Lowden and naval officer John A. Rodgers were the guests of honor in the ceremonies held at Soldier Field. At the time Rodgers was a national hero, following his attempted nonstop flight two months earlier, and was all-over the news.[154][155][156][157][158][159] Lowden had been heavily involved in the effort to rename Soldier Field. Much like Rodgers, Lowden was also a prominent national political figure at the time. The event at Soldier Field began with decorated war veterans escorting Gold Star Mothers to their seats, and a salute fired by field artillery. The Flag of the United States was then raised, followed with a large banner baring the words 'Soldier Field' that had been carried into the stadium by the Gold Star Mothers. This was followed with a parade led by an Army general. The parade featured sailors from the nearby Great Lakes Naval Station, Reserve Officers' Training Corps units, and various veterans groups (including the Grand Army of the Republic). Following the procession of the parade, Rodgers spoke about his attempted non-stop flight. Other speakers included South Park Board-member, and future-mayor, Edward J. Kelley. The ceremony was attended by over 20,000 spectators.[1][160][99][97][161][162][163][164][165]

Notes

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  1. ^ midwestern United States debut of Jack Ü

References

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