NORTH LAWNDALE — Chicago’s leading punk festival wrapped its 20th edition Sunday with Green Day bringing out thousands of fans; a lineup packed with Chicago-area bands, including The Effigies, Smoking Popes, Screeching Weasels, Pegboy, Dehd and Footballhead; and a surprise appearance by Mayor Brandon Johnson.

The day concluded a triumphant 20th-anniversary celebration for Riot Fest, which featured not only a multitude of music but several stylized experiences like an Oktoberfest-inspired beer tent by Goose Island Beer Co., a karaoke bar and an arcade.

The larger-than-life butter statue of “Full House” star John Stamos returned, along with the Riot Fest wedding chapel. To honor the anniversary, the fest also debuted the Riot Fest Historical Society museum, housed in a building modeled aft

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