Last Grateful Dead show breaks Chicago stadium ticket record

Vicky Hardest, 47, of Northbrook, Ill., makes her way in to the Grateful Dead concert at Soldier Field in Chicago on Friday, July 3, 2015. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
Vicky Hardest, 47, of Northbrook, Ill., makes her way in to the Grateful Dead concert at Soldier Field in Chicago on Friday, July 3, 2015. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/TNS)


In a news release, Soldier Field says 71,000 tickets were sold for Sunday night's show and that this is the most sold for any event at the stadium. Soldier Field reported that 70,844 tickets were sold for Saturday's show, and that fans bought 70,764 tickets for Friday's show.

Soldier Field says the previous record was 67,936 tickets sold for a U2 concert in 2009.

The band has said the Chicago shows would be their last as the Grateful Dead.

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