List of songs about Chicago

This is a list of songs about Chicago.

Modern songs - Post 1960

*"5-3-10-4" - Alkaline Trio
*"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 at night" - Spoon
*"Chicago Bound" - Jimmy Rogers
*"Chicago Bound" - Canned Heat
*"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 x 12" - Rogue Wave
*"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 Lights" - Lucky Boys Confusion
*"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"
*"Hitch Hike" - The Rolling Stones
*"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 Michigan" - Rogue Wave
*"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
*"Love/Hate (So Chicago)" - Shock Stars
*"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
*"Peace Frog" - The Doors
*"Picketlines And Pepperspray" - Silent Film
*"Prairie Song" - Billy Corgan
*"The Rebirth" - Chapter 13
*"Red Leaves of October" - Michael Peter Smith
*"Riverview" - Billy Corgan
*"San Francisco" - Alkaline Trio
*"Slow down Chicago" - Canasta
*"Somewhere on Fullerton" - Allister
*"Southside" - Common ft. Kanye West
*"Southside Mojo" - JaGoFF
*"South Side Irish" - Arranmore
*"South Union" - Lucky Boys Confusion
* "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
*"That's 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
*"You're Dead" - Alkaline Trio

Old compositions

*"An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance. Fantasie for Piano." 1893 - Composer Gustav 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" 1909 - Composer: Aubrey Stauffer, Lyricist: illegible
*"Chicago" - Composer: Granville English, Lyricist: Charles G. Blanden
*"C-h-i-c-a-g-o" - Composer & Lyricist: Gertrude E. Ketchum
*"Chicago Ad March" 1915 - Composer: A. H. Nussbaum
*"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
*"Chicago's Gift to a 'Nation's Hero'" (U.S. Grant) 1891 - Composer & Lyricist: W.C. Robey
*"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" 1909 - 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 Style" 1952 - Composer: James Van Heusen, Lyricist: Johnny Burke
*"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
*"The Chicago Two-Step" - Composer: J. P. Brooks
*"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" 1921 - 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
*"Hello Chicago Fox-Trot" 1933 - Composer: Anthony Misuraca, Lyricist: Joseph Argento
*"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" (Coon Song) 1906 - 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
*"Jolly Bears, To Those on the Board of Trade of Chicago. Polka Humoristic" 1880 - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
*"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
*"The March Maroon, University of Chicago March and Two-Step" 1906 - Composer: Harry Turner
*"Marching on to Chicago" 1933 - Composers & Lyricists: Richard Daly, Thomas Parmiter & Clitus Wickens
*"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
*"The Song of the Ferris Wheel - World's Fair 1893" - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth, Lyricist: M. A. Sturgis
*"The White City March and Twostep" 1905 - Composer: Hampton Durant
*"You Wake Up in the Morning in Chicago" 1915 - Composer: Harry Carroll, Lyricists: Ballard Macdonald & Coleman Goetz
*"The World's Fair or A Voyage to Chicago" 1893 - Composer & Lyricist: Leonard Gautier

ongs about Chicago Sport teams

*"Bear Down Chicago Bears" - Composer & Lyricist: Jerry Downs
*"The Chicago Cubs Song" - Composer: John Frigo, Lyricist: I.. C. Haag
*"Go Cubs Go" - Steve Goodman
*"Here Come the Hawks" Composer: J. Swayzee, Producer: The Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir
*"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

External links

*http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/001artmusic/chgosongs/chicagosongs.html