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Spending the weekend at Lollapalooza was like spending a lifetime there.

Our own Jim DeRogatis surveys what we can take away from this year's Lollapalooza and the festival's first evacuation.

Part of enjoying a festival of this size is accepting the good and the bad. But what Lollapalooza wants is for you to enjoy Lollapalooza more than the music at Lollapalooza. The whole event is about the event itself. 

For those brought up by parents who said it was innapropriate to wear bathing suits at amusement parks, the cropped top phenomena that swept Lollapalooza this past weekend took some by surprise. 

Was this really the plan? To rely on an emergency communication system that, for one, assumes festivalgoers have smart phones, and for two, can get service? But in a day defined by an evacuation, a few musical acts managed to drive away any non-musical memories.

Attendees, security staff, and OEMC staff brought in to direct traffic told WBEZ reporters that they were unaware of storm shelters or specific evacuation routes.

Chicago Police Department news affairs officer Amina Greer said Saturday that a 53-year-old male suffered a stab wound to the chest at about 7 p.m. Friday.