PHOTOS: Styx, REO Speedwagon, and Loverboy in Tinley Park

Summer concerts have made their return to Tinley Park’s Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, and so have Illinois’ very own Styx and REO Speedwagon.

The “Live and UnZoomed” tour, featuring co-headliners Styx and REO Speedwagon with special guest Loverboy, was the venue’s second concert of the season and a successful one at that, with a packed pavilion and crowded lawn.

Loverboy opened the show with an 8-song set, saving their two most popular songs, ‘Turn Me Loose’ and ‘Working for the Weekend’, for last.

Second to take the stage was REO Speedwagon, showing plenty of energy without any signs of slowing down as they went through a 13-song set of their well-known rock love ballads.

REO Speedwagon lead singer and Oak Lawn native, Kevin Cronin, even gave special shoutouts to Oak Lawn and Brother Rice High School between songs.

Styx headlined Saturday night’s show with a slightly longer 15-song set, playing a mixture of radio anthems alongside new tracks off their most recent studio album, Crash of the Crown, which came out last June.

Fans were also in for a special treat when Styx was presented with an award on-stage for being inducted into the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum’s Hall of Fame.

While REO Speedwagon was originally formed in downstate Champaign, Styx was formed in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago.

Aside from having family and friends in the Chicagoland area, both groups have also recorded multiple studio albums here, most notably at the former Pumpkin Studios in Oak Lawn which was owned by the late Gary Loizzo.

The “Live and UnZoomed” tour, which was named as such due to Zoom video calls being a popular form of communication during the pandemic while concerts were on a hiatus, began on May 31st and will continue through September 19th.

A full list of tour dates and ticket info can be found on Live Nation.

Photos by AJ Roccaforte.