Beyoncé 'Renaissance' tour announced with stop at Chicago's Soldier Field
Beyoncé Chicago stop will be in July
CHICAGO -- This is not a drill: Beyoncé is heading on tour, and she has a stop planned in Chicago.
On Wednesday the superstar singer announced her eagerly awaited "Renaissance World Tour" is coming with a post on her verified Instagram account, CNN reported.
According to her official site, the tour will kick off in May at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden and wind through Europe before hitting Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in July.
The dates currently listed have the tour wrapping up in September at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
She's planning to stop at Soldier Field July 22.
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"Renaissance," the Grammy winner's seventh album, dropped to much acclaim in July and her devoted fan base, the Bey Hive, has been waiting on word of a tour since then.
Her last worldwide tour was "On the Run II" in 2018, which featured her and her husband, Rapper Jay-Z, on 48 stops across North America and Europe.
Speculation that a new tour announcement was coming reached a fevered pitch after Beyoncé recently performed an private concert at the Atlantis The Royal resort in Dubai.
Her "Renaissance" album is up for several Grammy Awards, taking place Sunday in Los Angeles.
ABC7 Chicago contributed to this report.
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