Styx in Lincoln

Styx is an American rock band from Chicago that adopted its present name in 1972. Its progressive rock, hard rock and pop songwriting produced albums including The Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight, Paradise Theatre and Kilroy Was Here, as well as the songs “Come Sail Away,” “Renegade,” “Babe” and “Mr. Roboto.” The Paradise Theatre tour took Styx into arenas in 1981. The 1996 Return to Paradise reunion tour brought Tommy Shaw back to the touring lineup and yielded a live album and concert film recorded at the Rosemont Horizon. Styx later toured with REO Speedwagon and Don Felder on United We Rock in 2017; Loverboy joined both bands for Live & UnZoomed in 2022.

Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in Rockford, Illinois, in 1973. Its power pop and hard rock catalogue includes the albums In Color, Heaven Tonight and Dream Police, as well as “Surrender,” “I Want You to Want Me” and “The Flame.” Cheap Trick’s 1978 concerts at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo produced the live album Cheap Trick at Budokan. Twenty years later, the band played four nights at Metro in Chicago, performing its first four albums in sequence; recordings from those concerts appeared on Music for Hangovers. In 2017, Cheap Trick played North American amphitheatres as part of Foreigner’s 40th Anniversary Tour.