• Source: List of songs about Chicago

This is a list of songs about Chicago.




0–9


"1215 W. Belmont" - Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell
"19th Street Blues" - Johnny Dodds & Tiny Parham
"2120 South Michigan Avenue" – Rolling Stones
"29th and Dearborn" – Richard M Jones
"31st And State" - Johnny Griffin And Wilbur Ware With Junior Mance
"39th And Indiana" - Charley Musselwhite
"42 in Chicago" - Merle Kilgore
"43rd Street Jump" - David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton, Kansas City Red, Floyd Jones
"47th Street Stomp" – Jimmy Bertrand's Washboard Wizards
"5-3-10-4", 2000 – Maybe I'll Catch Fire - Alkaline Trio
"55th Street" - Lidell Townsell
"65th and Ingleside" - Chance the Rapper
"70th & King Drive" – Hot Hanas Hula




A


"A Cicada Of Chicago" by Pepe Ahlqvist
"Alpha" - Towa Tei
"An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance. Fantasie for Piano.", 1893 – composer: Gustav Luders
"Another Rainy Day in New York City" - Chicago
"All We Know" - Chainsmokers
"Angels" – Chance the Rapper from Coloring Book, 2016 (music video shows him rapping on top of the "L" train)
"Apex Blues" – Jimmie Noone & His Apex Club Orchestra
"Apostrophe to Chicago" – composer & lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden
"Area 312" – Resurrection Band
"At McKie's" – Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins (McKie's was a famous Chicago jazz venue)
"Ation" – Frode Gjerstad Trio With Steve Swell
"Auch Chikago War Einmal Jung" – Katja Ebstein
"Awake! Awake!" – composer & lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden




B


"Back Down On State Street" – Ben Sidran
"Back One Day" - TheFatRat & NEFFEX
"Back Streets of Lombard" – Ground Zero
"Back to Chicago" – Styx, from Edge of the Century, 1990
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" – Jim Croce
"The Ballad Of Jesse James" - various versions - see Jesse James (folk song)
"Bamako Chicago Express" - Don Moye
"Baseball Dreams" – Ralph's World
"Battle of Chicago" – Berkshire Seven
"Bear Down Chicago Bears" - John Frigo
"The Belle of Chicago", 1892 – composer: John Philip Sousa
"The Belle of Chicago Barn Dance" – composer: Theo. Bonheur
"The Belle of Lincoln Park" – composer & lyricist: Geo. Maywood
"Best Wishes to your Black Lung" – Less Than Jake
"Big Bill the Builder" (mayor), 1928 – composers & lyricists: Milton Weil, Bernie Grossman & Larry Shay
"The Big Brass Band from Brazil" by Art Mooney & His Orchestra
"The Big Unit" – The Mountain Goats
"Big Windy City" - Troy Shondell
"The Billiken Man", 1909 – composer: Melville J. Gideon; lyricist: E. Ray Goetz; sung by Blanche Ring
"Black Sox Two Step (Noir Chaussette's Two Step)" – Sidney Brown
"Blank" - Disfigured
"Bloody Canvas", 2021 – Polo G
"Blowin' in from Chicago", 2005 – composer: Hank Hirsh; Six Perfections Music; Around and Back
"Blue Line" – Local H
"Blues for the South Side" – Ronnie Earl
"Blues for the West Side" – Eddie Shaw
"Boo’d Up" - Ella Mai
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" - Andrews Sisters
"Boost Chicago" – composer: Armin P. Bauer
"Born in Chicago" – Paul Butterfield 1965, blues
"Born in Illinois (in a place they call Chicago)" - Mark "Big Poppa" Stampley
"Bow to the Masta", 1999 – Kool Keith
"Boy Reporter Blues, Dedicated to Horace Wade – Boy Reporter of the Chicago Evening American", 1924 – composers: Dell Lampe & J. Bodewalt Lampe; lyricist: Haven Gillespie
"Break Down on Lake Shore Drive" – The Black Dog
"Bryn Mawr Stomp" – Local H
"Bucktown Stomp" – Johnny Dodds' Washboard Six
"The Burning Iroquois" (theater), 1904 – composer: Edward Stanley; lyricist: Mathew Goodwin
"The Burning of the Iroquois", 1904 – composer: Thos. R. Confare; lyricist: Morris S. Silver
"Burn It All Down" - PRVIS




C


"Calling Me Home, Chicago", 1985 – composer: Paul David Wilson
"Carry On" - Anna Tsuchiya
"Casimir Pulaski Day" – Sufjan Stevens
"Calling" - Metro Boomin x Nav x A Boogie with Swae
"Calling Me" - Ooyy
"Caliente" - Farruko, Darell, (Mr Canovas Techno Remix)
"Can’t Get Enough" - Big Time Rush
"Cha Cha Chicago" – Kai Winding
"Chi-Chi-Chi-Chicago" – Nellie Lutcher
"Chi'-Ca'-Go'" - Johnny Ross
"Chi-City" – Common, featuring Kanye West, from Be, 2005
"Chi-City Boogie" - Ricardo Miranda
"Chi-Town" - Jing Chi
"The Chi-Town Boogie" - Casey Jones
"Chi-Town Hustler" – Eddie Floyd
"Chi-Town Theme" – Cleveland Eaton
"Chi-Town" – The Cribs
"Chi-Town" – Da Brat
"Chi-Town" – Jerry Butler
"Chi-Town Affair" - DJ Phats
"The Chi-Town Nightlife" – Paul Johnson
"Chicago" – ABC
"Chicago" – Roy Ayers
"Chicago" – Big D and the Kids Table
"Chicago" – Birdpaula
"Chicago" – Bis
"Chicago" – Capital STEEZ produced by MF DOOM
"Chicago" - Clueso
"Chicago" - Colour Club
"Chicago" - David Morales presents the Red Zone Project
"Chicago" – Kiki Dee
"Chicago" – Dynastie Crisis
"Chicago" – The Doobie Brothers
"Chicago" – Enuff Z'nuff
"Chicago" – Flipturn
"Chicago" – Frédéric François
"Chicago" - Gabry Fasano (Italian electronic music dance producer/dj)
"Chicago" – Gemini One
"Chicago" – Groove Armada
"Chicago" – Hieroglyphics
"Chicago" – Ingram Hill
"Chicago" – Michael Jackson 2014
"Chicago" – Alexz Johnson
"Chicago – Ivan Kuchin
"Chicago" - music by Lew Pollack; lyrics by Sidney Clare
"Chicago" – Luther Allison
"Chicago" – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
"Chicago" – The Masterbuilders
"Chicago" – Mat Kearney
"Chicago" - O.A.R.
"Chicago" - Otis Pierce
"Chicago" – Ted Mulry
"Chicago (We Can Change the World)" – Graham Nash 1971, (about the 1968 Convention)
"Chicago" – Des O'Connor
"Chicago" – Portugal. The Man
"Chicago" – The Purple Hearts
"Chicago" – Django Reinhardt
"Chicago" – Revolutionary Ensemble
"Chicago" – Lucy Wainwright Roche
"Chicago" – Rodgers & Hart
"Chicago" – Alexander Rosenbaum
"Chicago..." – Screeching Weasel
"Chicago" – Shawnna
"Chicago" – Simoncino
"Chicago" – Sufjan Stevens
”Chicago” - Louis Tomlinson
"Chicago" – The Tossers
"Chicago" – The Uglysuit
"Chicago" – Kate Voegele
"Chicago" – Tom Waits
"Chicago" – Sean Watkins
"Chicago" – Andre Williams
"Chicago - 1926" - Nanette Workman
"Chicago 60616" - Kenny and the Kasuals
"Chicago A"/"Chicago B" – Tirez Tirez
"Chicago After Dark" – Chicago
"Chicago Afterwhile" by Country Soul Revue featuring Dan Penn
"Chicago Allstars Boogie" – Willie Dixon & The Chicago Allstars
"Chicago at Night" – Spoon
"Chicago Blues", 1946 – composers: Arthur Crudup, Ransom Knowling, Judge Riley
"Chicago Blues" – Dion DiMucci
"Chicago Blues" – Fletcher Henderson
"Chicago Blues" – Bill Snyder
"Chicago Blues" - Jim Peterik
"Chicago Blues" - Oscar Peterson
"The Chicago Blues" – Sally Roberts
"Chicago Boogie" - Four Blazes
"Chicago Bop Stepping" – The Clayton Brothers
"Chicago Bound Blues", 1923 – composer & lyricist: Lovie Austin
"Chicago Bound Blues" – Bessie Smith
"Chicago Bound" – Canned Heat
"Chicago Bound" – Jimmy Rogers
"Chicago Boxcar" - Fabulous Poodles
"Chicago Breakdown" – Gene Ammons
"Chicago Breakdown" – Big Maceo Merriweather
"Chicago Breakdown" – Doctor Ross
"Chicago Bus Stop (Ooh, I Love It)" – Salsoul Orchestra
"Chicago Buzz" – Junie Cobb
"Chicago By Night" - Orlando Voorn
"Chicago Calling" – Cyril Davies
"Chicago, Chicago" – Lord Invader
"Chicago, Chicago" - Teddy Phillips and His Orchestra featuring Colleen Lovett
"Chicago City" – George "Harmonica" Smith
"Chicago City" - The Monarchs
"Chicago Concerto" - Bill Snyder
"The Chicago Conspiracy" – David Peel
"Chicago Cottage" – The Mirage
"The Chicago Cyclist March", 1896 – composer: Hans Liné
"Chicago, Damn" – Bobbi Humphrey
"Chicago Dancin' Girls" - Curtis Potter
"Chicago Disco" – Major Lance
"Chicago Emerald City" – Dave Angel
"The Chicago Express (March Two-Step)", 1905 – composer: Percy Wenrich
"Chicago Fanphair '93" – Local H
"Chicago Flyer" – Meade Lux Lewis
"Chicago Fog Lift" - Chunky, Novi & Ernie (featuring Lauren Wood)
"Chicago Function" – Sidney Bechet
"Chicago Girl" – Roger Whittaker
"The Chicago Girls' March or Two-Step Dance", 1895 – composer: J. W. Tate
"Chicago, Glad To Be Back Home" - Louisiana Red
"The Chicago Glide" – composer: Prof. Joseph Gearen
"Chicago Green" – The Surfaris
"Chicago Heights" - Roy Davis Jr.
"Chicago Here I Come" – Willie Dixon & Johnny Winter
"Chicago High Life" – Earl Hines
"Chicago Hope" - Southampton Ltd (an alias of techno producer Thomas Schumacher)
"The Chicago Hussar's Quickstep", 1892 – composer: A. H. Rintelman
"The Chicago Hustle" - Evelyn Thomas
"Chicago, Illinois" - Ben Verdery
"Chicago, Illinois" - Bobby Short
"Chicago, Illinois" - from the film Victor/Victoria, performed by Lesley Ann Warren, written by Leslie Bricusse and Henry Mancini
"Chicago Institute" – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
"Chicago Is Alive" – Dicken (of Mr Big)
"Chicago Is Just That Way" – Eddie Boyd
"Chicago Is Large" – Nazgul
"Chicago Is Loaded With The Blues" - Chicago Blues Allstars/Willie Dixon
"Chicago Is My Home" – Pierre Lacocque; sung by Lurrie Bell, from album Hattiesburg Blues; Mississippi Heat
"Chicago Is So Two Years Ago" – Fall Out Boy from album Take This To Your Grave 2003
"Chicago in Mind" – Albert Ammons
"Chicago Jackmaster" - K-Alexi
"Chicago Light Green" - Jimmy Owens (musician)
"Chicago Line" - John Mayall
"Chicago Man" – Eddie Shaw
"The Chicago March", 1909 – composer: Henry S. Sawyer
"Chicago Melody" - Axel Zwingenberger
"Chicago Meltdown" - Impakt
"Chicago Mess Around" - Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders
"Chicago, Mon Amour" – Made in Sweden
"Chicago Monkey-Man Blues" – Rosa Henderson
"Chicago Morning" – Chris Rea
"Chicago My Home Town" – Barry Goldberg
"Chicago, My Home Town" – composer & lyricist: Paul S. Hargrow
"Chicago, New York" – The Aislers Set
"Chicago North Western" – Juicy Lucy
"Chicago, Now!" – The Fall
"Chicago on My Mind" – Albert Ammons
"Chicago on My Mind" – Jimmy Dawkins
"Chicago Party Theme" - Jesus Wayne
"Chicago Post March", 1896 – composer: Ellis Brooks
"Chicago, Prairie Gem of Illinois" – composer & lyricist: Lora Aborn
"Chicago Rhythm" - Chicago Stompers
"Chicago River Blues" - Hayden Thompson
"Chicago Rockets" - Bourbon Street Barons
"Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" – The Hold Steady
"Chicago, Send Her Home" - Willie Hightower
"Chicago Serenade" – Eddie Harris
"Chicago Sidewalk" – Arthur Adams
"Chicago Slam" - K-Alexi
"Chicago Slide" – Victoria Spivey
"Chicago Song" – David Sanborn
"Chicago Southside" - CZR (house record)
"Chicago Stomp" - Pinetop Perkins
"Chicago Stomp Down" – Duke Ellington
"Chicago Stomps" – Jimmy Blythe
"The Chicago Story" - Jimmy Snyder
"Chicago Style" - Dave Specter
"Chicago Style" - (from Road to Bali)
"Chicago Surf" - Surf Teens
"Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)", 1922 – composer & lyricist: Fred Fisher; popularized by Frank Sinatra
"Chicago, the City of Today" – composer: Bill Snyder; lyricist: Ann Marsters
"Chicago, the Gem on the Shore", 1923 – composer & lyricist: J. A. Johnson
"Chicago, the Most Beautiful City" – composer & lyricist: Frank Padula
"The Chicago Theme (Love Loop)" – Hubert Laws
"Chicago Tickle" - Harry Tierney
"Chicago Trane Blues" - Toby Ben
"The Chicago Tribune Centennial March", 1947 – composer: Robert Trendler; lyricist: Jack La Frandre
"Chicago Tribune March", 1893 – composer: W. Paris Chambers
"Chicago Trip" - The Mackenzie
"Chicago Twist" – Werner Baumgart
"The Chicago Two-Step" – composer: J. P. Brooks
"Chicago Wind" – Merle Haggard
"Chicago Woman" - The Oxfords
"Chicago Woman" - Sonny Turner & Sound Limited
"Chicago Women" - Willie James Lyons
"Chicago x 12" – Rogue Wave
"Chicago's Finest" – Emmure
"Chicago's Gift to a 'Nation's Hero'" (U. S. Grant) 1891 – composer & lyricist: W. C. Robey
"Chicago's Queen" – Baron Longfellow
"Chicagoland," 2014 – Magic Man
"Chicagoland Twirl Polka" – Frankie Yankovic
"Christmas in Chicago" – Marilyn Scott
"Chronically Cautious" - Braden Bales
"City in a Garden" – Fall Out Boy
"City Lights" – Lucky Boys Confusion
"City of CHI" – Juice
"The City of Chicago" – Luka Bloom, Christy Moore
"City of Promise. 1934 Century of Progress Song" – composer: Jos. Snabl-Antes; lyricist (Czech text): Vasek Niederle; lyricist (English translation): Libushka Bartusek
"Clark Street" – Elmer Bernstein
"Clean Up Chicago" - Josef Myrow and Mack Gordon
"Closer to Our Graves" – Lucky Boys Confusion
"Cold" - Nightcore (Maroon 5 ft. Future)
"Cold and Windy Night" – The Fantastic Four
"Cold Chicago" – Humming House
"Cold Chicago Wind" - Jack Bonus
"Cold Chicago Winds" - Country Boys (featuring the Willis Brothers)
"Cold Windy City of Chicago" – Boxcar Willie
"Columbia Fair (Grand March)" – composer: Theodore Moelling
"Columbian Guards March – The Musical Hit of the World's Fair", 1892 – composer & lyricist: T. P. Brooke
"Columbus Fair (Grand March)" – composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
"Come On! Feel the Illinoise! – Sufjan Stevens
"Come to Chicago" – composer: Dorothy Giffey; lyricist: James Andrichen
"Coming from Chicago' – Angelo D'Onorio
"Conover March" (dedicated to the officials of the World's Columbian Exposition) 1893 – composer: Ion Arnold
"Con–" – Frode Gjerstad Trio With Steve Swell
"Control" - Unknown Brain x Rival
"Cook County Jail" – Tom Edwards Country Four
"The Corner" – Common, featuring Kanye West, from Be, 2005
"The Count On Rush Street" - Shelly Manne Septet, 1951 - composer: Bill Russo
"Crook County" – Twista, from Mobstability, 1998
"Cruise Control" - Lyn Lapid
"Cubs in Five" – The Mountain Goats




D


"Daley's Gone" – Steve Goodman
"Dancing in the Street", 1964 – Martha and the Vandellas
"Dead End Street" – Lou Rawls
"Dead or Alive" - Empara MI & Dreamchild
"Dear Chicago" – Ryan Adams
"Dearborn Street Breakdown" – Charles Avery
"Dearie" - Gordon MacRae & Jo Stafford
"Dennehy" – Serengeti
"Destination - Chicago" - Commander Tom
"Dolls" - Bella Poarch
"Don't Call On Me" - The Monkees
“Don’t Let Me Cave In” - The Wonder Years
“Don’t Tell Em” - Jeremih
"Don't Be Shy" - Tiësto & Karol G
“Don’t You Worry - Black Eyed Peas, Shakira, & David Quetta
"Double Fantasy" - The Weekend
"Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)" (It's A Long Story Mix) - R. Kelly
"Down on Maxwell Street" - Micky Moody and Paul Williams (British singer)
"Down On Wabash Avenue" - Josef Myrow and Mack Gordon
"Downtown Chicago" - Tangerine Dream
"Dr. Chicago" – Udo Lindenberg
"A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" – Steve Goodman




E


"East Chicago Blues" – Sparks Brothers
"East Wacker Drive" – Phil Barry
"Electrified" - TheFatRat
“End Of Beginning” - Djo
"End Of Chicago" - Shock Stars
"An Esthete On Clark Street" – William Russo
"Enemy" - Imagine Dragons
"Enough" - NEFFEX
"Enough" - Charlieonnafriday
"Everybody" - Nicki Minaj ft Lil Uzi Vert
"Everything" – Dawn Xiana Moon
"Everything Goes On" - Porter Robinson
"The Eggplant That Ate Chicago", 1967 – Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band
"The EL" – Rhett Miller
"El-A-Noy" by Billy Corgan 2004
"The Elements: Fire", recorded 1966, released 2011 – Brian Wilson
"Epitaph Of A Small Winner" by Archie Shepp & Chicago Beau
"Epidemic", 2020 - Polo G from Hall of Fame, drill
"Everything is Big in Chicago" by Gustave Kerker and Frederic Ranken




F


"Fair Women of Chicago Waltzes", 1893 – composer: Theo. H. Northrup
"Far, Far Away" – Wilco
"Ferris Wheel March", 1893 – composer: Geo. Maywood
"Ferris Wheel Waltz", 1893 – composer: G. Valisi; lyricist: Harry C. Clyde
"First Steps", 1993 – composer: Tommy Stinson, from Bash & Pop
"Fly Away" - TheFatRat
"Food from Chicago" – Lord Christo
"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
"Forty-Seventh and State" – Bud Freeman
"From Chicago to the Sky" – Seventh Avenue
"From Chicago with Love" – Harlan Howard
"From London to Chicago" - Wild Bob Burgos (from Matchbox (band)) & The Dreadnoughts
"Full Moon" – Common
"Funeral March in Memoriam, Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago", 1893, composer: W. Herbert Layon
"Funk, Chicago Style" - Dick Hyman




G


"Get Busy" – Mr. Lee
"The Girl from Chicago" – Benny Bell
"Git On Up" – Fast Eddie and Sundance
"Go Cubs Go" – Steve Goodman
"Go Go Chicago. Wonder City Home of Mine." – composer & lyricist: Clitus M. Wickens
"Go Go Gadget Flow" – Lupe Fiasco, from Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, 2007
"GO" – Ofycial & Wade White Owl, featuring Papi
"Goin' Back to Chicago" – Chet Oliver
"Goin' Back to Chicago" – Smokey Hogg
"Goin' to Chicago Blues", 1939 – composer: Count Basie Orchestra, Lou Rawls
"Goin' to Chicago" – traditional; recorded by Mike Westbrook
"Golden Ring" – Tammy Wynette & George Jones
"Gone To Chicago" - The Pied Pipers
"Goodbye to Guyville" – Urge Overkill
"Goodnight Chicago" – Rainbow Kitten Surprise
"Got To Leave Chi-Town" - Chicago Blues A Living History
"Grand Exposition March" – composer: Louis Falk
"Grand Terrace Ballroom" - Albert Nicholas, Herb Flemming, Nelson Williams, Benny Waters, Joe Turner (jazz pianist)
"Grand Terrace Rhythm" – Bob Crosby
"Great Big Friendly Town Chicago" – Dora Hall
"Greater Chicago March" – composer: Jacob Valentine Havener; lyricist: Agner Clark Winkler
"Green Mill Garden Blues", 1920 – composer: unknown (88 key piano roll)
"Greetings. Chicago's Official Song. 1833–Chicago–1933" – composer & lyricist: George D. Gaw; transcriber & arranger: Frank Barden
"Growing Up" – Fall Out Boy, from Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend, 2003
"Guren no Yumiya" - NateWantsToBattle
"A Guided Tour of Chicago" – The Lawrence Arms, 1999




H


"Hail Chicago (March)", 1933 – composer: Stanley Kay; lyricist: A. Seaborg
"Hail to Thee, Chicago" – composer: John E. King; lyricist: Estella A. Johnson-Hunt
"Hail, Chicago, Hail", 1949 – composer and lyricist: Lesley Kirk
"Hail, Chicago! Official Song of the Pageant of Progress", 1921 – composer: Bob Allen; lyricist: Ted Turnquist
"Hands Open"– Snow Patrol
"Happy Summertime" – R. Kelly, featuring Snoop Dogg, from TP.3 Reloaded, 2005
"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" - Daft Punk
"Harlem Avenue" by Red Callender
"Hastings Street" – Blind Blake
"The Hat He Never Ate" – composer: Ben Harney; lyricist: Howard S. Taylor
"Hello Chicago Fox-Trot", 1933 – composer: Anthony Misuraca; lyricist: Joseph Argento
"Hello Chicago" – Topher Jones & Amada, featuring Ido vs. The World
"Help Me Out" - Maroon 5 and Julia Micheals
"Highway 55" – The O'Kanes
"Hitch Hike" – The Rolling Stones, from Out Of Our Heads, 1965; originally by Marvin Gaye
"Hold Me Closer" - Elton John and Britney Spears
"Home" – Kanye West
"Home In Chicago" - Dave Riley And Bob Corritore
"Homecoming" – Kanye West, featuring Chris Martin from Graduation, 2008 (charted at #9 on UK Singles, music video features the bean sculpture in Millennium Park)
"Homesick at Spacecamp" – Fall Out Boy from Take This To Your Grave, 2003
"Hometown Chicago" - John Parricelli And Stan Sulzmann




I


"I-94" - Jules Blattner
"(I've Got the) Old Chicago Blues" – Bob Gentile
"I Am Proud of Chicago" – composer & lyricist: Ben Schwartzberg
"I Came Home" – Rhymefest
"I Dream of Chicago" – Parlours
"I Got a Mind to Go to Chicago" – Jackie Payne Steve Edmonson Band
"I Got the Chicago Blues" – Jim Peterik
“I Hate Chicago” - Laura Jane Grace
"I Left My Mind In Chicago" - Abu Talib (musician)
"I Love Chicago" - Little Mike and the Tornadoes
"I Love My Radio (Midnight Radio)" – Taffy
"I Might Need Security" – Chance The Rapper
"I Murdered Them In Chicago' - from Glad To See You
"Ignition" - Brian Tuey
"I Smell Chicago" by Catfish Hodge
"I Used to Work in Chicago. I Did But I Don't Anymore", 1944 – composers & lyricists: Larry Vincent & Sunny Skylar
"(I Want To Go To) Chicago" - R.T. & The Rockmen Unlimited
"I Was Having A Hard Time In Chicago" - Mike Martin
"I–94" – Jules Blattner
"I'll Meet You in Chicago (at the Fair)", 1928 – composers & lyricists: Charlie Harrison & Fred Rose
"I'm a Ramblin' Man" – Waylon Jennings
"I'm Dying Tomorrow" – Alkaline Trio
"I'm from Chicago", 1917 – composer: Leo Edwards; lyricist: Blanche Merrill
"I'm Going Right Back to Chicago" (Coon Song) 1906 – composer: Egbert Van Alstyne; lyricist: Harry Williams
"I'm Strong for Chicago" (University of Chicago Songbook) composer unknown, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfb8Q-569q8
"Immortals" - Fall Out Boy
"I've Got All This Ringing in My Ears and None on My Fingers" – Fall Out Boy, from Infinity on High, 2007
"I've Got To Leave Chi-Town" - Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell
"In 1933 (Where Will You Be)" – composer & lyricist: Art Kassel; arranger: Charles Adams
"In Cairo Street: A Characteristic Fantasie for Piano", 1893 – composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
"In Chicago" – composer & lyricist: Olive Jeane
"In Old Chicago", 1937 – composers & lyricists: Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
"In Tha Chi" – Shawnna, featuring Syleena Johnson, from Block Music, 2006
"In the Ghetto"– Elvis Presley (International number one pop song in 1969)
"In the Kitchen – Umphrey's McGee from Anchor Drops, 2004, progressive rock
"Inner Circles of Chicago" – Rodger Wilhoit
"Into the Chicago Abyss" – Southall Riot
"Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" – Soul Coughing
"Is There Someone Else?" - The Weekend
"It's a Cold Winter" – Frankie Knuckles, Chicago house
"It's a Way They Have in Chicago" (from Sinbad) 1896 – composer: Gustav Lüders; lyricist: M.E. Rourke
"It's a Way They Have in Chicago" (from the Royal Chef) 1904 – composer: Ben M. Jerome; lyricists: Geo. E. Stoddard & Chas. S. Taylor




J


"Jackson Park El Train" by Harold Mabern Trio
"Jackson Park Express" – "Weird Al" Yankovic
"January Rain” - PRVIS
"Jazz Music" – Gang Starr (a different song to the group's more famous "Jazz Thing")
"Jazz Thing" – Gang Starr
"Jesus Just Left Chicago" – ZZ Top
"Joe Chicago" – Big Walter Horton
"Joe Murphy's Farewell To Chicago" – Old Rope String Band
"Jolly Bears, To Those on the Board of Trade of Chicago. Polka Humoristic", 1880 – composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
"Jumpin' in the Pump Room" - John Kirby (musician) and his Orchestra
"Just Blew in from the Windy City" – Doris Day, 1953
"Just for Money" – Paul Hardcastle




K


"Kaibutsu" - AmaLee
"Keys to the City" – Ministry & Co Conspirators, 2008
"Kill Bill" - SZA
"Kissing Strangers" - USHER




L


"Last Night" - Morgan Wallen
"Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox" – Walter Jagiello
"Left & Right" - Charlie Puth and Jong Kook
"L.A., Goodbye" – The Ides of March
"Lady From Chicago" - Neal Sharpe
"Lake Effect Kid" (demo song) – Fall Out Boy, from Welcome to the New Administration, 2008
"Lake Michigan" – Rogue Wave, 2007
"Lake Shore Drive" – Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, 1971
"Lake Shore Drive" – Art Porter Jr.
"Lake Shore Drive" – E-Smoove (Eric Miller)
"Lake Shore Drive" – Gerald Wilson Orchestra
"Lake Shore Drive" – The Innocence Mission
"Lake Shore Drive" – Theo Parrish
"Lake Shore Drive Boogie" – Lefty Dizz
"Lake Shore Drive (Chicago Concerto)" - 101 Strings
"Lake Shore Drive (Slight Return)" – Harris Newman
"Lake Shore Driving" – Duran Duran 1988
"Lakefront Blues" - Dan Burley And His Skiffle Boys
"Lakeshore Cowboy" – Ramsey Lewis
"The Last Day of the Fair", 1893 – composer: Frank Swain
"Lawndale Blues" - Eddie Taylor Blues Band
"LAX to O'Hare" – The Academy Is...
"Leader of the Band" – Dan Fogelberg (from Peoria)
"Leavin' Chicago, A.M.F." – Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
"Leaving Chicago" – Knockout
"Lido Shuffle" – Boz Scaggs
"Lifelong" - Anno Domini Beats
"Lift Every Voice (Take Me Away)" - Mass Order
"Lift Me Up - Rihanna
"Light it Up - Robin Hustin x TobiMorrow
"Lincoln Park Pirates" – Steve Goodman
"Lily" - Alan Walker, K-391 & Emelie Hollow
"Little Joe from Chicago", 1930 – composers: Mary Lou Williams, Henry Wells
"Living in Chicago" – The Bee Gees
"Lobster And Scrimp" - Timbaland featuring Jay-Z
"Logan Square" - – Jimmy McPartland And Art Hodes
"London House" – Billy Walker
"Long Line To Chicago" - Larry Hosford
"Love to Die" - Slashstreet Boys
"Lovin's Been Here and Gone to Mecca Flats", 1926 – composer: Jimmy Blythe
"Lost" - Maroon 5
"Lost Again" - Kings Elliot
"La Vida Es Una - Karol G




M


"Mama Chicago" – Bonnie Koloc
"Mama Chicago" – Mike Westbrook
"The Man from the South with a Big Cigar in his Mouth", 1930 – composers & lyricists: Rube Bloom & Harry M. Woods
"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
"Maxwell Street" – Chris Rea
"Maxwell Street Boogie" - Rob Hoeke
"Maxwell Street Shuffle" – Barry Goldberg
"Mayday" - TheFatRat
"Me and My Broken Heart - Rixton
"Mean Old Chicago" - Bob Margolin
"Mecca Flat Blues", 1924 – composer: Jimmy Blythe; lyricists: Jimmy Blythe & Priscilla Stewart
"Meet Me in Chicago" – Jimmy McPartland And Art Hodes
"Meet Me in Chicago" – Mat Kearney, Buddy Guy from Rhythm & Blues
"Melancholium" - Aksil Beats
"Memphis-Chicago Blues" – Julio Finn Band (featuring Memphis Slim)
"Mercy Me" – Alkaline Trio
"Miracle" - Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding
"Miss Chicago (The Great 'Pageant' Song)", 1921 – composer: Edmund Braham; lyricist: W.S. Greelish
"Moon River" - Jacob Collier
"Monody" - TheFatRat
"Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" – Brian Wilson
"The Motto" - Tiësto & Ava Max
"Muddy Waters (Little Walter/Lakeshore Theme/Willie D./Otis/Whisper From Theresa's/Walkin' Up Halsted)" – Glen Hall & Gil Evans
"Must Have Been The Wind" - Alec Benjamin
"My Kind of Town" – Frank Sinatra, 1964 (nominated for the 1964 Academy Award for Best Original Song)




N


"New West Side Stroll" - Dave Specter
"New York/Chicago" - Mark Imperial
"New York and Chicago" - music by Albert Von Tilzer; lyrics by Junie McCree
"New York - London - Paris - Chicago" - Soup
"New York To Chicago" - Chubby Jackson
"New York City" - Chainsmokers
"The Night Chicago Died" – Paper Lace (Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit in 1974)
"Night In Chicago" - Reeds
"North to Chicago" – Hank Snow
"Northside Cadillac" - James Cotton
"Northwest 222" – Harry Chapin
"Nothing Beats Chicago/Ocean is Different" – from the musical Marie Christine
"Nothing is Lost" - The Weekend
"Nowhere Fast" - Laurie Sargent
"Never Forget You" - Zara Larsson




O


"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
"Oh, Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh, Yes! The Dancing Girls will give a Show before they Start for Chicago!" from Little Christopher Columbus
"Oh You Chicago, Oh You New York", 1910 – composer: Albert Von Tilzer; lyricists: Junie McCree & Sydney Rosenfeld
"The Oldest Living Groupie in Chicago" – Doug Ashdown
"On a Freezing Chicago Street" – Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
"On the Midway, or the Jolly Bum, Bum", 1893 – composer & lyricist: Louis Ortenstein
"On and On" by Cartoon (feat. Daniel Levi)
"On the South Side of Chicago" – Vic Damone, Freddy Cole
"One Way Ride (To Chicago)" – Lois Johnson
"Only in Chicago" – Barry Manilow
"The Original Chicago Blues", 1915 – composer: James White
"The Osmosis Suite - Chicago Indian" - System 7 (band)
"Our Chicago" (U of C), 1926 – composer & lyricist: Norman Reid
"Out Running Karma" - Alec Benjamin




P


"Palmah House Shuffle" (Palmer House Hotel), 1903 – composer: Libbie Erickson
"Pantin' in the Panther Room" – Fats Waller
"The Payback" - James Brown
"Peace Frog" – The Doors
"Picketlines and Pepperspray" – Silent Film
"Polka Lounges In Chicago" - Eddie Blazonczyk & The Versatones
"Prairie Song" – Billy Corgan
"Private Lawns" – Angus & Julia Stone
"Pulaski at Night" – Andrew Bird
"Pulaski Day" – Kidd Russell
"Pump Room" - The Friendly Indians
"Pump That Body" - Mr. Lee
"Pump Up Chicago" – Mr. Lee
"Put the Blame on Mame", 1946 – composers & lyricists: Allan Roberts, Doris Fisher




Q






R


"Randolph Street Rag" - Chicago Rhythm Kings
"Real Good Girlfriend" – The Mountain Goats
"Red Hot Chicago" – Flying High, 1930; composers & lyricists: B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
"Red Leaves of October" – Michael Peter Smith
"Reflections" - Lollia & Stylosa
"Relax With Chicago" - K-Alexi
“Reminding Me (of Sef) - Common (rapper)
"Richmond, Chicago, Mexico And Home" - Sonny Miller And The Happy Valley Boys
"Ride My Face to Chicago" – Frank Zappa
"Ride To Stony Island" - Stony Island Band (from Stony Island (film))
"Rise Up" - TheFatRat
"Rock-Skippin' at the Blue Note" – Duke Ellington
"Royal Garden Blues" (jazz standard)
"The Rebirth" – Chapter 13
"Route 90" - Clarence Garlow
"Run for Cover" - Gabrielle Aplin
"Ruined My Life" - Coopex
"The Runaway Train" - Michael Holliday




S


"San Francisco" – Alkaline Trio
"Saturn" - SZA
"Saying Goodbye" – Every Avenue
"The Seer's Tower" – Sufjan Stevens
"She Shook Him in Chicago" – (Madame Sherry 1909) – composer: Karl L. Hoschna; lyricist: Otto Hauerbach
"She Was Hot" – Rolling Stones
"She Was in Chicago" – John Lee Hooker
"She'd Never Leave Chicago" – McKendree Spring
"The Sheik of Chicago (Mustafa)", 1960 – adaptor & lyricist: Bob Merrill; recorded by the Four Lads and Archie Bleyer
"The (Shipped) Gold Standard" – Fall Out Boy from Folie a Deux, 2008
"Shooting Stars" - Bag Raiders
"Showtime in Chicago" – Joe Jackson
"Shy-Town" – Gorillaz
"Si Volvieras a Mi" - Josh Groban
"Sidewalks of Chicago" – Merle Haggard
"Side by Side" - Sofia Wylie
"Silent Night/7 O' Clock News" – Simon & Garfunkel
"Silver City" – Hey Champ
"Simple Man" by Wale
"Slow Down Chicago" – Canasta
"Snakeheads" – The Mountain Goats
"Snooze" - SZA
"Snow but Faster" - Rock Guitare
"So Long Toots" – Cherry Poppin' Daddies from Soul Caddy
"So Long Sentiment" - Celldweller
"Something from Nothing" – Foo Fighters, 2014
"Somewhere in Chicago" – Arnold McCuller
"Somewhere on Fullerton" – Allister
"Sounds at the Archway" – Eddie Harris
"Sounds of West Side Chicago" – Jimmy Dawkins & Hip Linkchain
"South Shore Drive" - Bernard Allison
"South Shore Drive" - Noble "Thin Man" Watts
"South Side" – Moby, featuring Gwen Stefani, 2001 (#14 on Billboard Hot 100)
"South Side Irish" – Arranmore
"South Side of Chicago" – Eddie Burns
"South Side Shake" - Dan Burley And His Skiffle Boys
"South Union" – Lucky Boys Confusion
"Southbound Ryan" – Dennis DeYoung
"Southside Boogie" - Dick Hyman
"Southside Boogie" - James Cotton
"Southside Chicago Waltz" – Black 47
"Southside Chicago" – Otis Brown & The Delights
"Southside Hop" - Left Hand Frank
"Southside Mojo" – JaGoFF
"Southside Shuffle" – Art Hodes
"Southside Stomp" - Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters
"Southside Stuff" – Jimmy Yancey
"South Side To Riverside" - Lurrie Bell
"Southside" – Common, featuring Kanye West, from Finding Forever, 2007
"Sorrow" - Aksil Beats
"Star Eater" - Daniel Deluxe
"Star Witness" – Neko Case
"Startin' for Chicago" – Tracy Nelson
"State Street Blues" – Synco Jazz Band (featuring Joseph Samuels)
"State Street Jive" – Cow Cow Davenport
"State Street" - Peter Gallway
"State Street" – Sonny Knight
"State Street" – Sun Ra
"State Street Samba" – Cook County
"State Street Special" - Johnny Parker (jazz pianist)
"State Street Sweet" - Gerald Wilson Orchestra
"State Street Tomorrow – Theme Song", 1930 – composers: Carelton Colby & Maurice Wetzel from the Radio Station KYW staff
"Stay Chi" – Juice
"Steal the Show" - Lauv
"Stell–" – Frode Gjerstad Trio With Steve Swell
"Sting" - Fletcher
"Stockyard Blues" - Floyd Jones
"Stockyard Strut" - Freddie Keppard
"Stony Island Band" - Stony Island Band (from Stony Island (film))
"Stratford-on-Guy" – Liz Phair, 1993
"Streamline Train" - The Vipers Skiffle Group
"Strings Of Chicago" - Lidell Townsell
"Stuck in Chicago" – Cate Brothers
"Sunshine in Chicago" – Sun Kil Moon
"Sunflower" - Post Malone and Swae Lee
"Super Bowl Shuffle" – Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew, the 1985 Chicago Bears champions
"Super Fade" - Fall Out Boy from "Lake Effect Kid EP", 2018
"Sweet Chicago" – The Original Caste
"Sweet Home Chicago", 1937 – composer: Robert Johnson; lyricists: Robert Johnson & Roosevelt Sykes, Blues Brothers
"Sweet Spots" – The Fiery Furnaces
"Swing Life Away" – Rise Against from Siren Song of the Counter Culture, 2005
"Switchboard" – Kid Sister




T


"Take Me Back to Chicago", 1985 – title track on Take Me Back to Chicago by Chicago
"Take the Time", 1993 – Waiting for the Night by the Freddy Jones Band
"Talkin' Baseball (Baseball And The Cubs)" – Terry Cashman
"Taste of Chicago" – Albert Washington
"Thank You Chicago" - Ricardo Miranda
"That's That", 2006 – Snoop Dogg featuring R. Kelly (#3 on Hot Rap Songs chart)
"The Hill I will Die On" - Alec Benjamin
"The Way You Felt" - Alec Benjamin
"There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mother They're Burning Big Louis Tonight" – Alex Harvey
"This City", 2011 – Patrick Stump featuring Lupe Fiasco from Soul Punk
"The Humbling River" - Puscifer
"Thumbs" - Sabrina Carpenter
"Ticket to Chicago" – Terry Garthwaite (once of Joy of Cooking)
"To Chicago With Love" – Lois Johnson
"Together Forever (Krush Groove 4)" – Run-DMC
"Tonight, Tonight", 1996 – The Smashing Pumpkins (#4 on Mainstream Rock chart)
"Tonight Will Last Forever", 2005 – Photographs by Mest
"The Torture Doctor", 2013 – Alkaline Trio
"Train to Chicago" – Mike Doughty
"The Trianon March", 1934 – dedicated to the Chicago Association of Dancing Masters; composer: R. Alexander Campbell
"True Blue," 2023 – boygenius
"True Enough", 2009 – Everything's Easy by Girlyman
"Turn It Up Again" – Conway Brothers
"Twilight Serenade", 2005 – Another Ghost by Jason Myles Goss
"Two Words", 2004 – Kanye West featuring Mos Def, Freeway, and the Boys Choir of Harlem, from The College Dropout




U


"The University Quickstep", 1865 – inscribed to the President and Friends of the Chicago University; composer: E. M. Shaw
"Underneath the Streetlights of Chicago", 2019; Riley Smith
"Unstoppable" - Sia




V


"Vacation in Chicago" – Cold War Kids
"Vernon Park" - Lil' Mark
"Via Chicago", 1999 – Summerteeth by Wilco
"The Viking March – Captain Andersen's Viking Ship from Norway to the World's Fair", 1893 – composer: H. C. Verner




W


"Wacker Drive" – Wazmo Nariz
"Wailin' at the Trianon" – Lionel Hampton
"Wait" - Maroon 5
"Warriors" - AJ Michalka
"We Ride", 1998 – R. by R. Kelly, featuring Jay-Z
"We're All Crazy in Chicago", 1986 – Jonathon Brandmeier
"We're Gonna Go to Chicago" – from the musical Marie Christine
"Werewolf" - Motionless in White
"Welcome 2 Chicago", 2001 – Abstract Mindstate featuring Kanye West
"Welcome to Chicago" - Gene Farris (British chart hit in 2003)
"Welcome to Chicago" – Kill Hannah from Wake Up the Sleepers, 2009
"Welcome to the DCC" - Nothing But Thieves
"Wes Cide Bluze" – Jimmy Dawkins
"Wes Cide Rock" – Jimmy Dawkins
"West Side Baby" - Fenton Robinson
"West Side Bossman" - Otis Grand, Anson Funderburgh, Debbie Davies
"West Side Shuffle" – Ronnie Earl & Duke Robillard
"West Side Woman" - Lurrie Bell
"Wet the Bed" - Chris Brown
"Weston's March to Chicago", 1867 – composer: Edward Mack; publisher: S. Brainard & Sons, Cleveland
"Wheels a-Rolling", 1948 – official song of the Chicago Railroad Fair; composer: Helen Purcell Maxwell; lyricist: Philip Maxwell
"When the Levee Breaks", 1929 – composers & lyricists: Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie; re-worked by Led Zeppelin in 1971
"When the Wind Blows in Chicago" – writers: Scott Turner, Audie Murphy; performed by both Roy Clark and Bobby Bare in 1964, and Eddy Arnold in 1970
"When You Meet a Man in Chicago" – from Sugar
"When You Say You Love Me" - Josh Groban
"Where We Started" - Lost Sky
"Wild" - Raylee
“Wilder Days” - Morgan Wade
"White Sox Stomp" – Jimmy Yancey
"Why" - Willow
"Windy City Blues" - Ernie Hawks And The Soul Investigators
"Windy City Blues" – Mike Westbrook
"Windy City Boogie Woogie", c. 1941–1943 – Nat King Cole
"Windy City Boogie", c. 1950–1954 – J. T. Brown
"Windy City Hop" – Slim Gaillard
"Windy City Soul" by Jerry Butler
"Windy City" – Jack-Tronic
"Windy City" – Jackie McLean
"Windy City" – Phish
"Windy City" - Richard Evans
"Windy City" – Rodney Franklin
"Windy City" – The Sweet
"Windy City" – from Windy City
"Windy City Blues" - Ernie Hawks & The Soul Investigators
"Windy City Stomp" - Rob Hoeke
"Wine-O From Chicago" - Howard Crockett
"Winter in Chicago", 2012 – Toil by Flatfoot 56
"Wish You Well" - PVRIS
"The Woman Downstairs", 1998 – Through the Trees by The Handsome Family
"Woman in Chicago" – Jim Post
"World's Columbian Exposition Waltz", 1893 – composer: Adelaide Marcelia Gluck
"The World's Fair or A Voyage to Chicago", 1893 – composer & lyricist: Leonard Gautier




Y


"Yes Chicago Is... (Suite)" - Gerald Wilson Orchestra
"You Haven't Seen The U.S.A. Until You've Seen Chicago!" - Dick Marx Orchestra
"You Wake Up in the Morning in Chicago", 1915 – composer: Harry Carroll; lyricists: Ballard MacDonald and Coleman Goetz
"You'll Find 'Em in Chicago" (from The Yankee Regent), 1905 – composer: Ben M. Jerome; lyricists: Chas S. Adelman and I. L. Blumenstock
"You're Dead", 2001 – From Here to Infirmary by Alkaline Trio
"Your the Inspiration", 1984 - Chicago 17




Z


"Zelda", 2007 – Isn't This Supposed to Be Fun!? by Farewell




Songs about Chicago sport teams


"All the Way", 2008 – Eddie Vedder
"Bear Down Chicago Bears", 1941 – composer & lyricist: Jerry Downs
"Chelsea Dagger", with text modified by Blackhawks' fans, 2006 – composer and lyricist: Jon Fratelli; performers: The Fratellis
"The Chicago Cubs Song – Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel!", 1969 – composer: John Frigo; lyricist: I. C. Haag
"Come On You Cubs Play Ball", 1937 – composer & lyricist: Bernard "Whitey" Berquist
"Cubs on Parade (The Great March and Two-Step)", 1907 – composer: H. R. Hempel; arranger: Jos. Techen
"The Glory of the Cubs", 1908 – composer: Arthur Marshall; lyricist: F. R. Sweirngen
"Go Cubs Go", 1984 – composer & lyricist: Steve Goodman
"Here Come the Hawks", 1968 – composer: J. Swayzee; producer: The Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir
"Hurrah for the Cubs", 1930 – composer: Burrell Van Buren; lyricist: Betty Douglas
"Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox", 1959 – composer & lyricists: Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers
"Super Bowl Shuffle", 1985 – composers: B. Daniels, L. Barry; lyricists: R. Meyer, M. Owens; performers: Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew, the 1985 Chicago Bears
"Watch the Cubs Play Ball", 1941 – composer & lyricist: Harry A. Magill
"Wave the Flag (For Old Chicago)", 1929 – fight song of the University of Chicago; lyricist: Gordon Erickson
"We're The Cubbies", 2012 – composer, lyricist, and audio engineer: Michael Droste CubsSong.com
"White Sox Fitted", 2010 – composer & lyricist: Young General
"The White Sox March", 1907 – composer: T. F. Durand




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