First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

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Coordinates: 41°32′38.52″N, 87°46′33.55″W First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre is a 30,000 seat music venue in Tinley Park, IL that opened in 1990. It is one of the largest music venues in the Chicago area with capacities up to 30,000 spectators. The facility was formerly named Tweeter Center Chicago, World Music Theater and New World Music Theater. It is often criticized for having poor acoustics.^{[citation needed]}

Some artists that have performed here are:

• Dave Matthews Band
• Coldplay
• Jimmy Buffett
• Rush (recorded their 1998 live album,"Different Stages", here in June 1997.)
• Styx
• 3 Doors Down
• Nickelback
• Def Leppard
• Journey
• Roger Waters
• Rascal Flatts
• Cinderella
• Poison
• Mötley Crüe
• Aerosmith
• Grateful Dead (Keyboardist Brent Mydland gave his last performance here in 1990.)

• Brooks and Dunn

Ozzfest and Vans Warped tour make annual appearances here as well every summer. Farm Aid was presented here in 1997, 1998, and 2005. Even Genesis has made an appearance here on their 1992 Way We Walk tour.

[edit] See also

• List of contemporary amphitheatres

[edit] External links

• First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre - Official Site