The Morton Salt complex in Chicago had been in operation for nearly a century before it was closed in 2015. Today, the complex has been transformed into a multi-purpose venue for live music and other events named The Salt Shed. A comprehensive Elation stage lighting rig from Upstaging is powering The Salt Shed, allowing it to quickly become one of the hot new performance spaces in Chicago.
The venue spreads over 1.5 acres of land along the Chicago riverfront and can accommodate around 3,300 people indoors and 5,000 at an outdoor performance space, which opened in the summer of 2022. The newly renovated indoor space was previously a storage facility for salt and features a distinctive A-Frame structure. Today, it boasts a performance stage and entertainment lighting system of Elation Artiste Monet, Proteus Lucius, Proteus Rayzor 760, Fuze MAX, Fuze Par Z60 IP, Protron 3K Color, and DTW Blinder 700 IP luminaires.
