Chigao’s Grant Park Festival has had a great summer, with solid crowds. “The rush to become a member of the Grant Park Music Festival, which guarantees access to 2,000 of the pavilion’s 4,000 fixed seats, began last season. In 2004, the festival stopped taking memberships six weeks before the Pritzker Pavilion opened, fearing they couldn’t accommodate so many new members. This summer, the festival sold out its basic and premium memberships, priced at $60 and $150 per person respectively. With 3,764 members, 30 percent more than 2004, it stopped taking new members in mid-June.”