North Coast Music Festival is an electronic music festival held every Labor Day Weekend. The 2026 edition returned to the recently renovated campus at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, about 30 minutes outside Chicago, and ran from Friday, September 4 to Sunday, September 6; the festival said it was celebrating 16 years. It billed the weekend as over 75 artists, six stages and three days, and calls itself Chicagoland's biggest Labor Day Weekend party.
The official 2026 lineup page names 70 acts. The lineup page's own summary leads with Fisher, Illenium, Porter Robinson, Griz, Slander and Tchami, and the bill also featured Ganja White Night, Dabin, Gryffin, Levity, Sammy Virji, Lilly Palmer and Angerfist. The six stages were the Stadium, the Vega, the Shipyard, the Firepit, the Chill Dome and a Silent Disco. The festival describes the Chill Dome as an air-conditioned dome for cooling down, with a laser show and downtempo DJs, and the Incendia Firepit as fire-breathing domes where the hardest music often plays. The 2026 set times were posted on the official schedule page.
The festival describes the SeatGeek Stadium campus as a stadium, a full-field practice dome and seven full fields with padded turf, so attendees got grass underfoot instead of the usual festival mud. Extras in 2026 included a Ferris wheel and a new Swing Tower, roaming costumed performers, art installations and two food courts with vegetarian and vegan options. North Coast was 17+ in 2026, there was no re-entry and no camping on site, and the festival went cashless, with payments made by scanning a registered wristband.