Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and officials from the world-renowned music festival, Lollapalooza, announced a $1.7 million grant through 2031 to expand arts education opportunities for the city’s young artists. One of the largest gifts CPS has ever received for arts programming, the gift brings the festival’s total support for CPS arts to $3.9 million since 2021. Working with CPS community partners Ingenuity and Children First Fund, the Chicago Public Schools Foundation, the $1.7 million donation advances two major initiatives: a new $634,000 investment in All-City Performing Arts, an initiative that offers after-school music, dance, and theater ensembles for students across Chicago, and a $1.1 million renewal of the Lollapalooza Arts Education Fund, which provides grants to CPS schools to expand in-school arts programs across artistic disciplines. To date, the Fund has awarded 234 grants to 117 schools across 43 Chicago wards, reaching more than 80,000 students.