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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Selena Fragassi - For the Sun-Times

Travis Scott brings his electrifying Circus Maximus to Chicago

Travis Scott commands the stage during his Wednesday night concert at the United Center. (Bill Smith/United Center)

If 2023 was the year of Travis Scott, 2024 isn’t letting him go quiet into the night. The rapper, who continues to dominate charts and Gen Z with his dynamic, Grammy-nominated album “UTOPIA,” showed as much at the United Center Wednesday night in a chaotic, overstimulating frenzy of a concert.

The show arrived a little over two weeks after the hip-hop megastar abruptly postponed his Dec. 15 concert at the UC just hours before showtime, eliciting strong social media reactions from ticketholders. At the time, he explained on X that he spent24 hours on an airport tarmac trying to get back to the States after booking a last-minute appearance at the Soundstorm Festival in Saudi Arabia the day prior. 

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