Architect Magazine: Few performance venues are asked to accommodate the Chicago Symphony Orchestra one night and a major pop act the next. For decades, that range has defined Ravinia—a historic outdoor music festival in Highland Park, Illinois, just north of Chicago—and it helped drive the just-completed transformation of its largest venue, the Hunter Pavilion.
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This was a fun read as someone who lives outside of Chicago, and in seeing the flexibility of venues like this is really interesting, and I'm especially curious about who staffs these shows and what kind of in-house staff is needed to maintain the AVL inside, how those workers deal with hosting such wildly different venues and what consoles they use that are that flexible. It's also curious, since this is a seemingly major touring venue, whether they have any kind of loading dock, given they're in a residential area and have already addressed some of those concerns in the architecture. Outside of that, what other infrastructure is specialized to make a venue like this possible in a relatively quiet area of the Chicago suburbs and still make it a conducive, attractive venue for tours to stop at, especially without a ton of transit connections, and how could that impact the people they're attracting to these venues?
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