Former music festival held in Chicago, Illinois Crossword Clue

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(verb)
1. lift with a pitchfork
(noun)
1. a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ILLINOIS (noun)
1. a midwestern state in north-central United States
2. a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
CHICAGO (noun)
1. largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
2. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

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