Opening Act(s): The Lumineers
Setlist:
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- New Year's Day
- Bad - America
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- With or Without You - Breathe
- Bullet the Blue Sky - Black Dog
- Running to Stand Still
- Red Hill Mining Town
- In God's Country
- Trip Through Your Wires
- One Tree Hill
- Exit - Eeny Meeny Miny Moe
- Mothers of the Disappeared Encore(s):
- Beautiful Day - My Kind of Town
- Elevation
- Miss Sarajevo - The New Colossus
- Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
- One - Happy Birthday
- I Will Follow
Remarks:
U2 performs at the of first of two shows in Chicago after a weeklong hiatus. Just hours after the terrorist attacks in London, Bono states during "Sunday Bloody Sunday": "For Manchester, for London, for the streets of Chicago... no more! No war!" The setlist is shuffled slightly with "Miss Sarajevo" making an appearance as the third song of the encore this time around. After "One", Bono leads the audience in singing Happy Birthday to Island Records founder Chris Blackwell (turning 80 on June 22), who is in attendance at tonight's show. Other celebrities spotted at tonight's show included musician Jon Bon Jovi, actor Colin Farrell and chef Mario Batali.
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