August 5, 1970: With 200 police officers gathered from seven other suburbs on hand, Highland Park’s Ravinia Park gives its stage to Janis Joplin and the Full Tilt Boogie Band. The Chicago Tribune describes the scene as a mob consisting of “20,000 clapping screaming youths listening to the Full Tilt Boogie band . . . Highland Park Police Chief Michael Bonamarte waiting for a riot.” [Chicago Tribune, August 6, 1970] “In her satin hooker clothes,” Tribune music critic Linda Winer writes, “no less than a full fall of purple feathers sitting atop her tangled hair, foot stamping, bottom waving, Southern Comfort swigging Miss Joplin could almost convince you to just watche her sing all night.” Eight days after the concert at Ravinia Joplin gives her final public concert at Harvard Stadium. On October 4, in the middle of recording her album Pearl, she fails to show up at the studio, and at the age of 27 she is dead of an overdose at Hollywood’s Landmark Hotel.
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