List of songs about Chicago
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This is a list of songs about Chicago.
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[edit] Modern songs - Post 1960
- "Chicago Bound" - Canned Heat
- "Back to Chicago" - Styx
- "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
- "Baseball Dreams" - Ralph's World
- "Bear Down, Chicago Bears
- "Best Wishes to your Black Lung" - Less Than Jake
- "Born in Chicago" - Paul Butterfield
- "Chi-City" - Common
- "Chicago (We Can Change The World)" - Graham Nash
- "Chicago Bound" - Jimmy Rogers
- "Chicago Fanphair '93" - Local H
- "Chicago Institute" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
- "Chicago Is So Two Years Ago" - Fall Out Boy
- "Chicago Is Large" - Nazgul
- "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" - The Hold Steady
- "Chicago Song" - David Sanborn
- "Chicago at night" - Spoon
- "Chicago" - Bis
- "Chicago" - Da Brat
- "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" - Fred Fisher, popularized by Frank Sinatra
- "Chicago" - Hieroglyphics
- "Chicago" - Ingram Hill
- "Chicago" - The Purple Hearts
- "Chicago" - Sean Watkins
- "Chicago" - Shawnna
- "Chicago" - Sufjan Stevens
- "Chicago" - The Tossers
- "Chicago" - The Uglysuit
- "Chicago, Damn" - Bobbi Humphrey
- "Chicago...." - Screeching Weasel
- "City of CHI" - Juice
- "City of Chicago" - Luka Bloom / Barry Moore
- "Closer To Our Graves" - Lucky Boys Confusion
- "Come On! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
- "The Corner" - Common
- "Crook County" - Twista
- "C-Town" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- "Daley's Gone" - Steve Goodman
- "Dead End Street" - Lou Rawls
- "Dear Chicago" - Ryan Adams
- "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" - Steve Goodman
- "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" - Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
- "The EL" - Rhett Miller
- "Far, Far Away" - Wilco
- "Full Moon" - Common
- "Going to Chicago Blues" - The Count Basie Orchestra
- "Golden Ring" - Tammy Wynette & George Jones
- "Goodbye to Guyville" - Urge Overkill
- "Growing Up" - Fall Out Boy
- "A Guided Tour of Chicago" - The Lawrence Arms
- "Hands Open"- Snow Patrol
- "Happy Summertime" - R.Kelly
- "Here Come the Hawks"
- "Home" - Kanye West
- "Homecoming" - Kanye West, Ft. Chris Martin
- "Homesick At Spacecamp" - Fall Out Boy
- "I Came Home" - Rhymefest
- "I'm Dying Tomorrow" - Alkaline Trio
- "In Tha Chi" - Shawnna
- "In The Kitchen - Umphrey's McGee
- In The Ghetto"- Elvis Presley
- "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" - Soul Coughing
- "Jesus Just Left Chicago" - ZZ Top
- "L.A., Goodbye" - The Ides of March
- "Lake Shore Drive" - Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
- "Lake Shore Driving" - Duran Duran
- "LAX To O'Hare" - The Academy Is...
- "Leaving Chicago" - Knockout
- "The Lincoln Park Pirates" - Steve Goodman
- "Little Joe from Chicago" - Nat King Cole
- "Mercy Me" - Alkaline Trio
- "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - Brian Wilson
- "My Kind of Town" - Frank Sinatra
- "The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace
- "On The South Side of Chicago" - Freddy Cole
- "Picketlines And Pepperspray" - Silent Film
- "Prairie Song" - Billy Corgan
- "The Rebirth" - Chapter 13
- "Red Leaves of October" - Michael Peter Smith
- "Riverview" - Billy Corgan
- "Slow down Chicago" - Canasta
- "Somewhere on Fullerton" - Allister
- "Southside" - Common ft. Kanye West
- "South Side Irish" - Arranmore
- "Star Witness" - Neko Case (about Humboldt Park: http://www.avclub.com/content/node/48266/1)
- "Stay Chi" - Juice
- "Stratford-On-Guy" - Liz Phair
- "Super Bowl Shuffle" - Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew, the 1985 Chicago Bears
- "Sweet Home Chicago" - Robert Johnson, covered by The Blues Brothers
- "Sweet Spots" - The Fiery Furnaces
- "Swing Life Away" - Rise Against
- "Take Me Back To Chicago" - Chicago
- "Take the Time" - Freddy Jones Band
- "Thats That" - Snoop Dog ft R. Kelly
- "Tonight Will Last Forever" - Mest
- "Tonight, Tonight" - The Smashing Pumpkins
- "Two Words" - Mos Def
- "Via Chicago" - Wilco
- "We Ride" - Jay-Z
- "Welcome To Chicago" - Kill Hannah
- "When the Wind Blows in Chicago" - Roy Clark
- "Winter in Chicago" - 504 Plan
- "The Woman Downstairs" - Handsome Family
[edit] Old compositions
- "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance. Fantasie for Piano." 1893 - Composer Gustave Luders
- "Apostrophe to Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden
- "Awake! Awake!" - Composer & Lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden
- "The Belle of Chicago" - Composer: John Phillip Sousa
- "The Belle of Chicago Barn Dance" - Composer: Theo. Bonheur
- "The Belle of Lincoln Park" - Composer & Lyricist: Geo. Maywood
- "Big Bill the Builder" (mayor) 1928 - Composers & Lyricists: Milton Weil, Bernie Grossman & Larry Shay
- "The Billiken Man" - Composer: Melville J. Gideon, Lyricist: E. Ray Goetz, Sung by Blanche Ring
- "Boost Chicago" - Composer: Armin P. Bauer
- "The Burning of the Iroquois" (theater) 1904 - Composer: Thos. R. Confare, Lyricist: Morris S. Silver
- "Cairo Street Waltz" 1893 - Composer: Signor Guglielmo Ricci
- "Chicago" - Composer: Granville English, Lyricist: Charles G. Blanden
- "C-h-i-c-a-g-o" - Composer & Lyricist: Gertrude E. Ketchum
- "C-h-i-c-a-g-o" - Composer: Aubrey Stauffer
- "Chicago Beautiful" - Composer & Lyricist: Juanita Mabelle Rosness
- "Chicago by the Inland Sea" - Composer & Lyricist: Russell Wood
- "Chicago Chicago Chicago" - Composers & Lyricists: Ben Trace, Al Trace & Herbie Herbert
- "Chicago, City of Destiny" 1921 - Composer: August Halter, Lyricist: Dr. Edward L. Fernald
- "Chicago Day Waltz" 1893 - Composer: G. Valisi
- "The Chicago Express" - Composer: Percy Wenrich
- "The Chicago Glide" - Composer: Prof. Joseph Gearen
- "Chicago (How I Love Chicago)" - Composers & Lyricists: Ben Trace, Al Trace & Teddy Phillips.
- "Chicago, Illinois (Looks Mighty Good to Me)" - Composer: Ernest H. Kelley, Lyricist: Jas. J. Kennedy, Arranger: Jean Walz
- "C-h-i-c-a-g-o in Illinois" - Composer & Lyricist: Tom Lynn, Editor: Jack Tomlinson
- "Chicago March" - Composer: Henry S. Sawyer
- "Chicago. Marine Band" - Composer: Wm. F. Peters
- "Chicago, My Home Town" - Composer & Lyricist: Paul S. Hargrow
- "Chicago, Prairie Gem of Illinois" - Composer & Lyricist: Laura Aborn
- "Chicago Quickstep" 1882- Composer: Mrs. D. C. Payne
- "C-h-i-c-a-g-o Spells Chicago" - Composer: Frank D. Brayn, Lyricist: Chas. H. Smith, Arranger: Al LaRue
- "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" 1922 (originally spelled Todd'ling) - Composer & Lyricist; Fred Fisher
- "Chicago, the City of Today" - Composer: Bill Snyder, Lyricist: Ann Marsters
- "Chicago, the Most Beautiful City" - Composer & Lyricist: Frank Padula
- "Chicago Theatre of the Air Theme" - Composer: Adolf G. Hoffmann, Lyricist: Francis Coughlin
- "Chicago Town Waltzes" 1893 - Composer: Rudolph Patek, T.R.A.M Vienna
- "Chicago Tribune March" 1893 - Composer: W. Paris Chambers
- "The Chicago Tribune Centennial March" - Composer: Robert Trendler, Lyricist: Jack La Frandre
- "Chicago World's Exposition" - Composer: Victor Vogel
- "City of Promise. 1934 Century of Progress Song" - Composer: Jos. Snabl-Antes, Lyricist (Czech text): Vasek Niederle, Lyricist (English trans.): Libushka Bartusek
- "Columbia Fair (Grand March)" - Composer: Theodore Moelling
- "Columbian Guard" - Composer & Lyricist: T. P. Brooke
- "Columbus Fair (Grand March)" - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
- "Come to Chicago" - Composer: Dorothy Giffey, Lyricist: James Andrichen
- "Ferris Wheel Waltz" 1893 - Composer: G. Valisi, Lyricist: Harry C. Clyde
- "The Forest of Love and Romance, Theme song of the Black Forest Village, A Century of Progress Chicago" 1933 - Composer: Ernie Kratzinger, Lyricist: Charles Kallen
- "Funeral March In Memoriam, Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago" 1893, Composer : W. Herbert Layon
- "Go Go Chicago. Wonder City Home of Mine." - Composer & Lyricist : Clitus M. Wickens
- "Grand Exposition March" - Composer: Louis Falk
- "Greater Chicago March" - Composer: Jacob Valentine Havener, Lyricist: Agner Clark Winkler
- "Greetings. Chicago's Official Song. 1833-Chicago-1933" - Composer & Lyricist: George D. Gaw, Transcribed & Arranged by: Frank Barden.
- "Hail Chicago (March)" 1933 - Composer: Stanley Kay, Lyricist: A. Seaborg
- "Hail, Chicago! Official Song of the Pageant of Progress" - Composer: Bob Allen, Lyricist: Ted Turnquist
- "Hail to Thee, Chicago" - Composer: John E. King, Lyricist: Estella A. Johnson-Hunt
- "The Hat He Never Ate" - Composer: Ben Harney, Lyricist: Howard S. Taylor
- "I Am Proud of Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Ben Schwartzberg
- "I Used to Work in Chicago. I Did But I Don't Anymore" 1946 - Composers & Lyricists: Larry Vincent & Sunny Skylar
- "I'll Meet You In Chicago (At The Fair)" 1928 - Composers & Lyricists: Charlie Harrison & Fred Rose
- "I'm from Chicago" - Composer: Leo Edwards, Lyricist: Blanche Merrill
- "I'm Going Right Back to Chicago" - Composer: Egbert Van Alstyne, Lyricist: Harry Williams
- "In Cairo Street: A Characteristic Fantasie for Piano" 1893 - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
- "In Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Olive Jeane
- "In 1933. (Where Will You Be)" - Composer & Lyricist: Art Kassel, Arranger: Charles Adams
- "In Old Chicago" - Composers & Lyricists: Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
- "It's a Way They Have in Chicago" - Composer: Gustav Luders, Lyricist: M. E. Rourke
- "The Last Day of The Fair" 1893 - Composer: Frank Swain
- "Let's Go Chicago! I Will" - Composer & Lyricist: Earl Cleland
- "Lincoln Park. A Solo and Chorus" - Composer: T. Glass, Lyricist: Geo.W. Morse
- "Ode for the opening of the World's Fair. Held at Chicago, 1892" - Composer: C. W. Chadwick, Lyricist: Harriet Monroe
- "Oh City of a Century" - Composer: Eleanor Everest Freer
- "Our Chicago" (U of C) 1926 - Composer & Lyricist: Norman Reid
- "State Street Tomorrow - Theme Song" 1930 music by Carelton Colby and Maurice Wetzel from the Radio Station KYW staff.
- "She Shook Him In Chicago" - (Madame Sherry 1909) - Composer: Karl L. Hoschna, Lyricist: Otto Hauerbach
- "You Wake Up in the Morning in Chicago" 1915 - Composer: Harry Carroll, Lyricists: Ballard Macdonald & Coleman Goetz
[edit] Songs about Chicago Sport teams
- "Bear Down Chicago Bears" - Composer & Lyricist: Jerry Downs
- "The Chicago Cubs Song" - Composer: John Frigo, Lyricist: I.. C. Haag
- "Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox" - Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers
- "Super Bowl Shuffle" - Composers: B. Daniels, L. Barry; Lyrics: R. Meyer, M. Owens