Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest 2026: Chicago concluded yesterday and broke attendance records with 90,000 tickets sold for the Grant Park experience and 103,605 total tickets sold, a record for a Pok\u00e9mon GO live event in North America. There were more than 717,000 unique active players in the city of Chicago from June 5-7.<\/p>\n
Trainers took part in exclusive gameplay, unique event experiences, community celebrations, and a weekend of play, exploration, and connection in Grant Park and throughout the greater Chicago area. Pok\u00e9mon GO celebrates its 10 year anniversary this July, making a return to the city where the first Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest was held the perfect location for the event.<\/p>\n
Facts & stats from the event:<\/p>\n
Attendance Figures for Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest: 2026 Chicago (June 5-7)
\n Tickets sold for Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest 2026: Chicago at Grant Park: 90,000
\n Ticketed participants in Chicago: 103,605
\n Pok\u00e9mon GO players throughout Chicago: 717,363<\/p>\n
Pok\u00e9mon Caught<\/p>\n
Inside Grant Park: 14,845,206
\n During ticketed citywide gameplay: 62,880,085
\n Across all of Chicago: 107,793,707<\/p>\n
\u201cComing back to where Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest started nine years ago made this year\u2019s event extra special,\u201d said Michael Steranka, vice president of product for Pok\u00e9mon GO. \u201cBeyond the sold out experiences at Grant Park, Pok\u00e9mon GO stretched across the city of Chicago with partnerships with the Chicago White Sox, the Field Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo. It was inspirational for me to see players from all over the world travel to Chicago to enjoy Pok\u00e9mon GO together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Six couples got engaged at Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest over the course of the weekend, using the Eevee and Pikachu mascot photo opportunity as a backdrop to pop the question to a loved one. All partners said yes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest 2026: Chicago concluded yesterday and broke attendance records with 90,000 tickets sold for the Grant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[61,60,80,210,211,212],"class_list":["post-490163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}