Kanye West, NIN close Lollapalooza fest in Chicago

"When I'm on this stage, you know this is my home," said Jones, who spent years working as a corrections officer at Rikers Island, a large New York jail, before breaking into the business in the mid-1990s.

Overall more than 120 bands and artists performed at the festival. Genres ranged from punk-influenced Irish-American band Flogging Molly to Amadou and Mariam, blind Afro-pop blues singers from Mali.

A traveling summer party in the 1990s, Lollapalooza was revived in Chicago in 2005 and is contracted to stay in the Windy City until 2011.