Lollapalooza 2026 kicks off in Grant Park with Lorde and a lineup dominated by women

Lollapalooza 2026 kicks off Thursday, and if you notice there are more women in Grant Park, there are — at least where music acts are concerned. This year’s lineup is dominated by women artists, with Lollapalooza offering one of the largest assortment of female headliners of any festival outside Lilith Fair in the ’90s and Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival taking place in late August. According to the organization Book More Women, which aims to close the gap of gender equity in…