Chicago Festival Shuts Down Signups After Memberships Double

Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival has had to stop taking new memberships after twice as many people signed up as did last year. “Festival leaders knew people would be interested in the new 4,000-seat Jay Pritzker Pavilion that becomes the Grant Park Orchestra’s home July 16. But they didn’t expect to double their membership, which carries a guarantee of preferred seating, weeks before the opening concert in the new facility in Millennium Park.”