JONAH → CADEN · SEPT 2–6 2026 · CHICAGO

The World
Comes Home

Me and you. Soldier Field, Friday September 4, 8:00 PM.
VIP pit, at the base of the globe. The grand finale of the whole tour, and his homecoming.

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Five days, Cade. Spokane to Chicago on Wednesday the 2nd. Friday night we're standing on the grass at Soldier Field with a fifty-foot globe turning over our heads, close enough to feel the fog come off it.

Me and you. That's the whole roster.

I've been run over by a truck and I've been liquidated down to nothing. I found God on the floor, not in a pew. I'm not telling you that to flex — I'm telling you so you know the money for these tickets came out of a comeback and not out of a windfall, and I spent it on this on purpose.

September 4 is the grand finale, and he's playing it at home. The field where he rebuilt his childhood house at midfield and set himself on fire and walked out of it. Twenty years of one man's life land on that grass Friday, and we're going to be standing inside the circle when it closes.

Everything else on this page is built around those six hours. Wednesday we land and eat. Thursday we walk the whole city so your legs are there on Friday. Saturday is trees. Sunday we fly home with a sandwich.

Read it, pack it, I'll see you at the gate.

— JONAH
01 · THE DAYS

Four Nights
In Chicago

Spokane → Chicago, September 2 to 6, built around Friday's pit. Tap any stop to open it.

ANCHOR — DO THIS FLEX / OPTIONAL FOOD
Base camp: South Loop

Hotel in the South Loop / Museum Campus area, near Roosevelt and Michigan. Reason: it's a 20–25 minute walk to Soldier Field, so on show night we skip the entire 63,000-person rideshare mess in both directions — and after seven hours in the pit, that walk home is everything. We're also sitting on the Red, Green and Orange lines and a 15-minute walk from Millennium Park. He plays Soldier Field both nights, the 3rd and the 4th, so the neighborhood buzzes both evenings. That's a feature.

02
Wednesday · Land
ARRIVAL EVENING · KEEP IT EASY

Spokane to Chicago usually means a connection, and either way the clock jumps two hours against you. One good meal, one look at the lake, bed.

EVENING · LANDING
From O'Hare: Blue Line to Jackson, then a transfer or a 10-minute cab — 60 to 75 minutes all in, or about 40 by rideshare off-peak in the evening. From Midway: Orange Line straight to Roosevelt, 25 minutes, drops you at the hotel's doorstep. If the fares are close, Midway wins this trip on both ends. CTA DAY PASSES IN THE VENTRA APPLOAD VENTRA BEFORE YOU LAND
~8:30 PM · DINNER
Lou Malnati's, South Loop, 805 S State — a few blocks from base camp. Order the deep dish the second you sit down. It bakes 30 to 40 minutes and the rookie move is waiting to order it. Butter crust, get the sausage. Why tonight: it's the one must-eat that's slow. Burn it on the low-energy night and keep the fast classics — Italian beef, tavern-style — for the busy days.
~10 PM · OPTIONAL
Ten-minute walk east to the Museum Campus lakefront. Full skyline lit up across Monroe Harbor, and Soldier Field glowing to the south. Stand there a minute before we head back. That's where Friday happens. Look at it once from out here, so you know what it looked like before.
03
Thursday · Spend The Legs
FULL TOURIST DAY · BIG MILES TODAY

Train south first thing, then the walking day — about three miles at a stroll, one continuous line from the river to the park. Spend the legs today so they're there tomorrow.

8:30 AM · SOUTH SIDE
Metra Electric south from the Museum Campus / 11th St station, which is three blocks from base camp, to 79th / Cheltenham. About thirty minutes. Half a mile east on foot from there. The house is 7815 S South Shore Drive — his mother's house, the one he grew up in. One block over, the green city street sign reads Honorary Dr. Donda West Way. Rainbow Beach is at the end of the street if we want the lake before the train back. It's a private house on a residential block, so we look from the sidewalk and that's it. Twenty minutes there, back downtown by 11:30. If Thursday gets away from us, Friday's slow morning is on the same train line. METRA FARE IN THE VENTRA APPCOFFEE AT THE STATION
12:00 PM
Al's #1 Italian Beef or Portillo's at Clark & Ontario. Order it "dipped, hot" — dunked in the jus, giardiniera on top. Lean over the counter, elbows out. This is the sandwich The Bear made famous. Eat it the Chicago way.
1:30 PM · ANCHOR
Ninety minutes with a docent narrating the skyline from the water, and it's the one tourist thing I'd do twice. The Chicago Architecture Center's cruise from the Michigan Ave dock is the gold standard; Wendella is the cheaper cousin and it's fine. Book it now for an early-afternoon slot — early-September boats sell out. Why the afternoon: the morning belongs to the train south, and the low sun coming off the glass on the way back in is the better picture anyway.
3:30 PM · ANCHOR
Walk the Riverwalk east, cut south down Michigan Ave into Millennium Park: Cloud Gate, Crown Fountain, Lurie Garden. On the way down we pass 332 S Michigan — the American Academy of Art, one semester, partial scholarship, gone; that's where Dropout starts. Then cross the BP Bridge into Maggie Daley Park for the skyline-over-green shot. I'm taking a slow lap through the Lurie — that one's mine, the planting in there is as good as it gets, and I'll be the guy standing still in it.
5:00 PM · PICK ONE
Willis Tower Skydeck Ledge, the glass box 103 floors up — it runs late, so it's the one that actually fits after the walk. Buy timed entry ahead. Or the Art Institute, which you're standing right next to — Nighthawks, American Gothic, Seurat, two hours does the hits — but it closes at five most days, so that one means trading it against the park walk. Pick one, bank the other as a Saturday rain option.
7:00 PM
Randolph Street, Restaurant Row, the best food strip in the city. Girl & the Goat or Monteverde for handmade pasta — reserve either now — or Au Cheval for the burger, which is walk-in: put your name in and get a drink nearby while you wait.
9:30 PM · OPTIONAL
He plays Soldier Field tonight too. If we're not cooked: the lakefront path near the stadium during the show is a free ambient listen, and we clock exactly how doors and entry flow, which gates back up, where the crowd moves. A free scouting report, 24 hours early. Otherwise sleep — tomorrow's the main event. Every person on that floor tomorrow figures out how the building works while they're already inside it. We'll walk in knowing.
04
Friday · Show Day
EVERYTHING SERVES THE PIT

Nothing ambitious, nothing far, legs stay fresh. The hour-by-hour for the night itself is further down this page.

MORNING · SLOW
Breakfast at Lou Mitchell's on Jackson if you want the 1923 diner — free donut holes while you wait, skillet eggs, thick toast. Then an easy flat loop on the Lakefront Trail around Museum Campus. The Shedd Aquarium terrace and the Adler Planetarium peninsula have the best skyline view in Chicago, fifteen minutes from the hotel. We'll watch them prep the stadium. This morning is also the backup slot for the South Shore train if Thursday ran out of road.
1:00 PM · THE BIG MEAL
This is the meal that carries you from doors to the last song, and he doesn't walk out until 9:15 or later. Protein and carbs, finished by 2:30: Manny's Cafeteria, old-school Jewish deli, corned beef sandwich the size of a football, ten minutes from base camp — or tavern-style pizza at Flo & Santos right in the South Loop. Then water, water, water, and taper by about 4 so you're not doing bathroom math at the rail.
3:00 PM
Feet up for an hour. Run the pack check below: clear bag, earplugs, battery, layer, VIP email screenshotted. Phones to 100.
DOORS → MIDNIGHT
Twenty to twenty-five minutes on foot from base camp. Floor tickets enter at Gate 0, south end. Leave the second your VIP entry window opens, take a rail spot on any side of the globe, run the game plan below. The grand finale, in his own city. Then we walk home while 63,000 people fight over cars. One thing I want out of tonight. The second Homecoming starts, look over. I'll be right there. That's it.
One rule today: if anything on this page fights rest, water, or getting to doors on time — cut it. The whole trip was built around these six hours.
05
Saturday · Trees
RECOVERY MORNING · THEN MY DAY

You'll wake up wrecked and happy. Slow morning, then the day swings over to my side of the table — one of the best public bonsai collections in North America, and I've wanted to stand in it for years.

~10 AM
Wildberry Pancakes across from Millennium Park — there's a line, it's worth it — or Yolk South Loop, steps from the hotel, for zero effort. Electrolytes. Your calves are going to be trash. Walk it off.
12:00 PM · THE ANCHOR
385 acres in Glencoe, and here's the reason it's on the list: the Searle Bonsai Courtyards hold a nationally significant collection — around 200 trees, a few dozen rotating on display at a time — including specimens by Susumu Nakamura. Decades-old trained trees, museum-grade display. Some of those trees have been in training for decades. While we're there: the Japanese garden, Sansho-En, across the lake, and the fruit and vegetable island. Getting there: Metra Union Pacific North from Ogilvie to Braeside, about 50 minutes, then a short walk or a cab in — or roughly 40 minutes by rideshare. Entry is free, parking costs, so transit wins. Give it three hours. You sent me songs. Saturday I'm showing you trees. Walk the courtyards with me and I'll show you what I'm actually looking at — how they stage them, how they label them, how they get a stranger to care about one tree before he walks past it. That's the exact problem I'm trying to solve with Bonsai Legacy. BOOK METRA IN THE VENTRA APPPHONE FULL OF REFERENCE PHOTOS BY 3PM
7:30 PM
Back to base camp, dinner low-key nearby, then a five-minute walk to Buddy Guy's Legends, 700 S Wabash — the most storied blues club in the city, and it's in our neighborhood. Live sets nightly. Check the calendar and grab tickets now. Chicago blues on the last night is the correct closing credits. Don't stay out late; the airport run is early.
⇄ SWAPS IF SATURDAY GOES SIDEWAYS

Too wrecked for the Glencoe trek, easy version: the White Sox are home Saturday at Rate Field — 20 minutes on the Red Line, cheap seats, done by six. That's the park where Ye threw out a first pitch with his son.

Too wrecked, but still want green: Garfield Park Conservatory instead — free, 25 minutes on the Green Line, one of the largest conservatories in the US, fern room and desert house. Less bonsai, still my world.

Rain: whichever of the Art Institute or the Skydeck we banked on Thursday, plus the Field Museum and SUE the T. rex, a ten-minute walk from the hotel.

06
Sunday · Fly Home
MORNING DEPARTURE · NO DRAMA

Morning flight back toward Spokane. The only job today is not missing it.

MDW
Orange Line from Roosevelt, 25 minutes. Be there 90 minutes before the flight.
ORD
Rideshare, 35 to 50 minutes early on a Sunday. Be there two hours before.
−2 HRS
You land in Spokane earlier than you left. You get the afternoon back.
BEFORE THE TRAIN
Both airports have a Portillo's or a beef stand past security. One final dipped beef as the official end of the trip. Non-negotiable.
Beef, plane, home.
That's the trip.
LIVE · IT'S TODAY
02 · SEPT 4 · HOUR BY HOUR

VIP Pit Game Plan

TODAY · THE ONLY THING YOU NEED OFF THIS PAGE
GATE 0
South end — not the gate on your ticket's face, the one for the floor. No re-entry once you're in, so nothing gets left behind — not in the room, not in a locker, not with anybody. Cashless building. Empty clear bag, water bought inside.

The realistic shape of the day. One caveat up front: exact VIP perks change by package — early entry time, merch item, dedicated lane — so your ticket confirmation email is the only thing that's actually true. Check it about a week out.

~1 WEEK OUTNOW
Read your VIP email and the stadium policy
Confirm your VIP entrance and your early-entry time — the floor gate is the one at the top of this section. Soldier Field runs the NFL clear bag policy and the size is in the pack check below; the building is cashless, and umbrellas are not allowed in. No pro cameras. No sealed water bottles either, so arrive hydrated and buy inside.
~2:00–4:00 PMNOW
Eat a real meal, drink water — and this is the merch window
You're on concrete and field turf from doors until the last song. Early-September Chicago lakefront: warm afternoon, cool and windy after dark. Wear a layer you can tie off — it's also the only rain cover you're getting, since the umbrella stays at the hotel. If we're buying merch, it happens in this window and not later. Prices, sizes and the whole play are the next section down.
DOORS · GATE 0 · LIKELY ~5–6 PMNOW
Use the early entry. Immediately.
The entire value of a VIP pit ticket is beating the GA floor to position. Walk straight in and take a rail spot on any side of the globe. It rotates and he circles it, so every side gets him. Rail beats center-mass.
6 PM → WALKOUTNOW
Hold position, manage energy
There is no opener. Not a small one, not a DJ set with a name on it — nobody has supported him on a single date of this tour. Ambient playback and a dark stage until he walks. And he walks late: every American date this run went at 9:15 to 9:45, not 8:00. The ticket says 8:00 because tickets always do. Put 9:30 in your head and the wait stops being a problem. A bathroom or merch run costs you your spot unless the other one of us is holding it.
WALKOUT · ~9:15–9:45NOW
The barrage, then the floor opens up
Mosh pits broke out at SoFi during Blood on the Leaves and CARNIVAL. In a pit crowd, expect them. If you don't want to be in one, the rail and the pit edges are the calm zones — the churn happens mid-floor. Earplugs. You're standing next to a stadium PA plus 63,000 people. This is the biggest night of the run — plan the legs, the water and the phone battery for three hours on your feet.
THE CLOSENOW
Homecoming → Runaway on the MPC
Save your phone for the last 30 minutes. Battery and camera roll, both — don't spend either on the first hour. It ends on Homecoming and then Runaway. Those are the two you want your hands free for — the setlist section says why.
AFTER THE LAST SONGNOW
Exit plan
63,000 people leaving the Museum Campus at once, and the rideshare surge is brutal. We walk it — 20 to 25 minutes north, back to base camp. That route runs toward Roosevelt anyway, so if the legs are gone, the Red, Orange and Green lines are right there.
03 · WHAT IT COSTS, WHEN TO BUY

The Merch Run

No re-entry at Soldier Field. Whatever we buy, we carry all night — through a bag check, then seven hours standing on turf. So it gets decided before we leave the hotel, not in a line at the gate.

THE RECORDS · OFF HIS OWN STORE
Signed Bully LP — the black-and-white grill-face sleeve with a signature scrawled across the teeth, black record sliding out the side.
Signed LP
Signature scrawled right over the grill.
$50GOES FIRST
Signed Bully CD — same grill-face artwork with a signature over the teeth, disc showing behind the case.
Signed CD
Same signature, a quarter of the bulk. This one fits in a clear bag.
$50GOES FIRST
Bully LP on black vinyl, the grill-face sleeve with a plain black record beside it.
Vinyl — black
Two weights, two prices. Same record.
$35 · 180g$25 · 140g
Bully LP on clear vinyl, the grill-face sleeve with a see-through record beside it.
Vinyl — clear
See-through. Looks like nothing else on the shelf.
$30
Bully LP on red vinyl, the grill-face sleeve with a red record beside it.
Vinyl — red
The loud one.
$30
Bully LP on chrome vinyl, the grill-face sleeve with a silver record beside it.
Vinyl — chrome
Silver. Matches the grill on the sleeve.
$30
Bully CD — grill-face artwork on the case, black disc behind it.
CD
Cheapest thing with the artwork on it.
$15
Bully cassette — grill-face artwork on the J-card, black tape with BULLY printed on the shell.
Cassette
Ten bucks and it goes in a pocket.
$10
Same sleeve on every one of them — his own face, teeth out, the grill. The only thing that changes is the disc. Grey, blue, brown and tan are the same $30 and aren't up on the store this week, so there's no photo of those to show you. And a record is a room purchase, not a pit purchase. That rule's in the play below.
THE APPAREL · NO PICTURES UP
TS-07 tee, boxed$45
HD-01 hoodie, boxed$75 · REPORTED
HT-01 hat, boxed$45 · REPORTED
Venue long sleeve, city on it$75 AT SOFI
The $45 tee and every album price came straight off his own store this week. The hoodie and the hat are reported, not confirmed off the store page, and he hasn't put a photo of any of it up, which is why there's nothing here to look at. Stand prices at the building can run over that — one guy at SoFi said he was sitting in "$125 Bully merch" and never said which piece, so that's the top of the range and nothing more. If you see a $20 Bully hoodie on StockX, that's the 2024 drop. Different era, different shirt.
Sizes are numbers. No S/M/L — it's 1, 2, 3, and the size codes read as 1 = S, 2 = M, 3 = L. The cut is heavyweight, dropped shoulder, wide — and short. A six-foot guy said the 2 fit him cropped. So it's oversized across, not down. Want length, take one up and expect it huge. Want the shape it was cut for, take your real number. SIZES RUN 1 / 2 / 3CASHLESS BUILDING · CARD ONLY
Walk down to the campus2:00 PM
One of us on the trailer line, one holds the pit queueSPLIT UP
Buy your size. Once.NO SECOND TRIP
Twenty minutes back to the room with the bagDROP IT
Back at Gate 0 with empty handsEARLY ENTRY
Tampa ran merch trailers from 2 PM against 5:30 gates — three and a half quiet hours before the crowd turned up. Same guide, one line that decides all of this: plastic bags only go to orders placed inside the stadium. Buy outside and they hand you the thing with nothing to carry it in. Everybody else spends the night folding a hoodie into a clear cinch bag or wearing the tee over their own shirt. We don't have to. Base camp is a twenty-minute walk — the bag goes back to the room and we come back light.
Sizes go early. Tampa's lines were down to whatever was left by evening. If you want the hoodie or a specific number, the afternoon is the only time it exists. There's no coming back out.
And the law, once: if the merch line and the pit line ever fight each other, the pit wins. We paid for the rail. A shirt is a shirt.
Vinyl, no. A twelve-inch record doesn't stand up in a 12 × 6 × 12 clear bag and doesn't survive a pit. If a signed LP turns up and you want it, it gets bought on a different day, or it goes back to the room before we go anywhere near Gate 0.
There are stands inside too. If something's left that you want, hit one the second we're through — inside is where they hand you a bag, and the concourse gets stripped as the night goes.
bully.yeezy.com is his actual store. Right now it's album formats — vinyl, CD, cassette, digital, and the signed stuff. No apparel on the front page as of this week. The signed LPs and the signed CD at $50 went in about a day. Fastest-moving thing on the tour by a mile.
He does build venue pages — /collections/sofi still has product sitting on it. The Chicago one says no products found. So does the Tampa one, for a show that already happened, so it tells us nothing either way yet. Shipping times: nothing usable out there. Don't count on anything arriving.
Skip the street tables. eBay has listings titled "reprint" out loud. Etsy is running Gildan blanks, S through 5XL, every color. Real tour merch is never available in 5XL in every color the week after the show. The tables on Museum Campus will be selling the Etsy version at stadium prices.
One quiet thing. The pieces that hold are the ones with the city and the date on them — the Donda listening-event long sleeve, from this same stadium in 2021, still has its own StockX page five years later. I'm not giving you a number. No real sale data exists and anybody who quotes you one made it up. Just keep the tag on the one you don't wear.
As of today: nothing. Not on soldierfield.com, not on the tour page, nothing in the news. yeliveinchicago.com just bounces you to an email signup. That's not a hole in the research, that's the answer — this gets announced one to two weeks out.
SoFi — a full week at Gate 8, 10 to 6SIGNED VINYL, ONSITE ONLY
San Antonio — day-before sale, Lot B, noon to 6FREE PARKING FOR IT
Tampa — day-of trailers from 2 PM, three gatesPLUS STANDS INSIDE
Two of the three US stops sold before show day. And hometown gets exclusives — the Donda night at this same stadium made Chicago-only pieces, one with an aerial shot of Soldier Field on the back. Chicago also does off-site pop-ups: Oasis opened one in Wicker Park two days before their Soldier Field show last year, timed entry, people queuing from 6 AM.
New Orleans is August 28, the last stop before us. Whatever they run there is the tell, six days out. Nothing's confirmed. WATCH · SOLDIERFIELD.COM/EVENTSTOUR.YEEZY.COM/?CITY=CHICAGOBULLY.YEEZY.COM/COLLECTIONS/CHICAGO@SOLDIERFIELDFROM AUG 26 · CHECK DAILY
The short version: if a Chicago sale lands before Friday, that's the whole answer — buy Thursday, drop it at the room, walk into Friday with nothing in our hands. If it doesn't, we run the 2 PM version and the bag still goes back to the room. And if the stand's picked over by the time we get down there, fine. We came for the globe, not a hat.
PACK CHECK · TAP TO TICK OFF
What Goes In
The Clear Bag

Eight things. Tick them as they go in — the page remembers, so you can do it in two passes.

0/8 READY
04 · WHAT HE PLAYS

The Setlist Blueprint

First tour in a decade, and the show has been rebuilt since it started. KING opens it now. The new-album run shrank to two or three songs and a greatest-hits back half moved in behind it. Recent stops have logged about two hours on stage; the SoFi nights ran closer to three. Tap each block. This is the shape of the show, in order.

KINGOPENS THE SHOW NOW
Can't Tell Me Nothing
N****s in Paris
Mercy
Praise God
Black SkinheadPIT IGNITES
On Sight
Blood on the LeavesMOSH AT SOFI
CARNIVALMOSH GUARANTEED
Power
Bound 2
No slow build. He opens on KING and front-loads a decade of number ones behind it, and the floor goes from nothing to violent by song five. If you want the rail, this is the stretch you fight for it in.
FATHEROFTEN 2X IN A ROW
ALL THE LOVEW/ ANDRE TROUTMAN
BULLY · PREACHER MAN · I CAN'T WAITONE OF THESE, ROTATING
This block used to be seven songs deep at SoFi. It's two or three now — he cut the album down to what survives live and gave the room back to the catalog. He still runs a new track twice in a row, Take 1 then Take 2, the way he did the Donda listening events. Andre Troutman is the vocalist on stage with him every night.
SoFi N1: Don ToliverMOON / E85
SoFi N2: Travis ScottFE!N + FATHER
SoFi N2: Lauryn Hill4-SONG MINI SET
SoFi N2: CeeLo GreenBULLY DEBUT
North WestMOST NIGHTS
Chicago speculation zone. Hometown show, so Chance, Common, Twista and Vic Mensa are the obvious bets — none of them confirmed, and guessing is free. North West appearing is near-certain. September 4 is the grand finale, in the city he's from, and nights like that are where he empties the clip.
Gold DiggerNEW TO THE SET
Touch the SkyNEW TO THE SET
American BoyNEW TO THE SET
Run This TownCOVER
Jesus Walks · Through the Wire
Flashing Lights
All of the Lights
Good Life
Stronger
Ghost Town
HomecomingCHICAGO. IT'S OVER.
RunawayCLOSER EVERY NIGHT
Every show ends with Runaway. He brings out the AKAI MPC sampler and plays the outro live, running the same sample of his mother's voice used on MAMA'S FAVORITE. Homecoming comes right before it. In Chicago, in the stadium where he did Donda.
05 · WHAT YOU'RE STANDING NEXT TO

A Planet on the Field

No screens-and-catwalk setup. The whole production is one object — a giant spinning half-sphere sitting on the stadium floor, projection-mapped into Earth, the Moon, fire, static. He performs on top of it, alone, sometimes harnessed at the apex.

50+ FT
Estimated globe diameter. Designed by Ye with creative director Aus Taylor.
360°
In the round on the field. The pit wraps the sphere, so every side is the front.
FOG + LASERS
Heavy haze shrouds the globe and lasers cut through it. Minimal crowd talk.
1 MAN
No band visible, no dancers. A lone masked figure walking the top of the world.

What that means for us specifically: we're at the base of the sphere looking up. The pit gets the scale, the bass, the fog rolling off the globe, and him passing directly overhead. What we trade away is the picture — the Earth and Moon transformations read best from height, and at SoFi the upper-deck resale was selling on exactly that view.

The move: the sphere rotates and he circles it, so don't panic about which side we land on. He comes to you. Take rail on any side over being buried in the middle of the so-called front.

SEE IT FIRST · 4K Front row, Tampa ↗ Shot from the rail at the base of the globe. That's the position, that's the height of it, that's what fog off a fifty-foot sphere looks like from underneath.
06 · BEFORE THE PLANE

The 101

There's a page behind this one. A hundred and one songs in seven movements, in order, with the footage cut in where it belongs — his whole life, start to now, laid out the way it actually happened to him.

Start it now and you'll be finished before Wednesday.

Then on Friday you'll recognize what he's doing while he's doing it, instead of finding out on the drive home.

101 OPEN THE 101 →
101 SONGS · 7 MOVEMENTS · START AT TRACK 1
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Six things, this week:

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