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Chicago has two of the most popular festivals in the United States

According to one outlet, the City of Chicago is home to a pair of the top ten most popular festivals to attend this year in the United States.

To celebrate all the great festivities going on across the country, Betway — An online sports casino — decided to analyze the most popular festivals based on search volumes in the past 12 months.

Using Keyword IO, the total number of searches for the top festivals across the US were analyzed, and the results showed that Illinois plans to play host to two of the most popular festivals across the country, in the form of Lollapalooza and Pitchfork.

Overall, the two Chicago-based festivals had a total search volume of 892,380 and 485,810 across the past year, making them a part of some of the most popular events in the US.

Coachella is officially America’s most popular festival with over 3.2 million searches in the past year and was a clear favorite when it came to festivals in the US.

The Electric Daisy Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, was the second most popular with 1,946,970 searches in the past 12 months, narrowly edging out Mardi Gras, which had 1,875,260 searches.

Top 10 Festivals in the US

FestivalLocationStateSearch Volume (12 months)
CoachellaIndioCA3,203,620
Electric Daisy CarnivalLas VegasNV1,946,970
Mardi GrasNew OrleansLA1,875,260
MovementDetroitMI1,415,900
The Feast of San Gennaro/Little Italy FestivalNew York CityNY1,059,850
LollapaloozaChicagoIL892,380
Outside LandsSan FranciscoCA579,270
PitchforkChicagoIL485,010
BonnarooManchesterTN475,460
SummerfestMilwaukeeWI399,040

Making up the top 5 most popular festivals is Movement in Detroit, Michigan and New York’s Little Italy festival otherwise known as ‘The Feast of San Gennaro’.

Chicago has two of the top ten festivals included in the ranking with Lollapalooza and Pitchfork either side of Outside Lands in San Francisco.

Bonnaroo (Tennessee) and Summerfest (Wisconsin) rounded out the rest of the top ten most popular festivals in the US.