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 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.

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 ...

One of the first orders of business: doing away with album scores. Five former Pitchfork journalists are starting a new music publication, Hearing Things. They are, from left, Jill Mapes ...