Chicago Songs

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0–9

“25 or 6 to 4” – Chicago 1970
“29th and Dearborn” by Richard M Jones
“Forty-Seventh And State” by Bud Freeman
“47th Street Stomp” by Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards
“5-3-10-4”, 2000 – Maybe I’ll Catch Fire by Alkaline Trio

A

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An Afternoon in MIdway Plaisance. Fantasie for Piano.
Composer: Gustav Luders
1893

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“Apex Blues” by Jimmie Noone & His Apex Club Orchestra
“Apostrophe to Chicago” – Composer & Lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden
“Awake! Awake!” – Composer & Lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden

B

“Back to Chicago” – Styx, from Edge of the Century 1990
“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” – Jim Croce
“Baseball Dreams” – Ralph’s World
“The Belle of Chicago” 1892 – Composer: John Philip Sousa

Sousa completed the full score of The Belle of Chicago on July 23, 1892, in Washington, D.C., one week before his discharge from the Marine Corps to form his own civilian band which, incidentally, was based in Chicago. (2 minutes 45 seconds)

“Battle of Chicago” by Berkshire Seven
“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 Unit” – The Mountain Goats
“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)” by Sidney Brown
“Blowin’ in from Chicago” 2005 – Composer: Hank Hirsh – Six Perfections Music – Around and Back
“Born in Chicago” – Paul Butterfield 1965, blues
“Boost Chicago” – Composer: Armin P. Bauer
“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
“Bucktown Stomp” by 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

C

“Cairo Street Waltz” 1893 – Composer: Signor Guglielmo Ricci
“Calling Me Home, Chicago”, 1985 – Composer: Paul David Wilson
“Casimir Pulaski Day” – Sufjan Stevens
“Cha Cha Chicago” by Kai Winding
“Chi-City” – Common ft. Kanye West from Be (Common album) 2005
“Chi-Town” – The Cribs
“Chicago” – ABC
“Chicago” – Alexz Johnson
“Chicago” – Big D and the Kids Table
“Chicago” – Bis
“Chicago” – Clueso
“Chicago” – Da Brat
“Chicago” – Django Reinhardt
“Chicago” – The Doobie Brothers
“Chicago” – Frédéric François
“Chicago” – Hieroglyphics
“Chicago” – Ingram Hill
“Chicago” – Kate Voegele
“Chicago” – Lucy Wainwright Roche
Chicago (Michael Jackson song)- Michael Jackson (from Gary), from Xscape 1999, 2014
“Chicago” – Portugal. The Man
“Chicago” – The Purple Hearts
“Chicago” – Pal Joey (musical), Rodgers & Hart
“Chicago” – Roy Ayers
“Chicago” – Sean Watkins
“Chicago” – Shawnna
“Chicago” – Sufjan Stevens from Illinois (album), 2005
“Chicago” – The Tossers
“Chicago” – The Uglysuit
“Chicago….” – Screeching Weasel
“Chicago – A Shinning Jewel By The Lake”, 2012 Composer, Lyricist, and Audio Engineer: Michael Droste Singer: Jimmy G ChicagoSong.org
“Chicago at Night” – Spoon
“Chicago Avenue” by The Klaxons
“Chicago Bound” – Canned Heat
“Chicago Bound” – Jimmy Rogers
“Chicago Bound Blues” – Bessie Smith
“Chicago Breakdown” – Doctor Ross
“Chicago Bus Stop (Ooh, I Love It)” by Salsoul Orchestra
“The Chicago Conspiracy” by David Peel
“Chicago, Damn” – Bobbi Humphrey
“Chicago Fanphair ’93” – Local H from Ham Fisted 1995
“Chicago’s Finest” – Emmure
“Chicago Institute” – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
“Chicago Is So Two Years Ago” – Fall Out Boy from Take This to Your Grave 2003
“Chicago Is Large” – Nazgul
“Chicago Is Not Chicago” – Soul Coughing
“Chicago, New York” – The Aislers Set
“Chicago, Now!” – The Fall
“Chicago-Rillas” – Chali 2na
“Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night” – The Hold Steady
“Chicago Song” – David Sanborn
“Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)” – Fred Fisher, popularized by Frank Sinatra
“Chicago (We Can Change The World)” – Graham Nash 1971 (about the 1968 Democratic National Convention)
“Chicago Wind” – Merle Haggard
“Chicago x 12” – Rogue Wave
“Chicago” 1909 – Composer: Aubrey Stauffer, Lyricist: Jimmie O’Brien
“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 After Midnight” – (from the musical ‘Chicago’)
“Chicago Beautiful” 1955 – Composer & Lyricist: Juanita Mabelle Rosness
“Chicago Blues” 1946 – Composers: Arthur Crudup, Ransom Knowling, Judge Riley (RCA Victor 20-3261)
“Chicago Boogie” 1947 – Composer: Ernie Harper (Aristocrat, 201A)
“Chicago Bound Blues” 1923 – Composer & Lyricist: Lovie Austin
“Chicago Buzz” by Junie Cobb
“Chicago By The Inland Sea” – Composer & Lyricist: Russell Wood
“Chicago Calling Davies” by Brian Knight
“Chicago Centennial Jubilee March 1803-1903” 1903 – Composer: John W. Baume
“Chicago Chicago Chicago” – Composers & Lyricists: Ben Trace, Al Trace & Herbie Herbert
“Chicago, City of Destiny” 1921 – Composer: August Halter, Lyricist: Dr. Edward L. Fernald
“The Chicago Cyclist March” 1896 – Composer: Hans Liné
“Chicago Day Waltz” 1893 – Composer: G. Valisi
“The Chicago Express (March Two-Step)” 1905 – Composer: Percy Wenrich
“Chicago Flip” by Whistler’s Jug Band
“Chicago For Christ” 1910 – Composer & Lyricist: Robert Harkness
“Chicago Function” by Sidney Bechet
“Chicago’s Gift to a ‘Nation’s Hero'” (U.S. Grant) 1891 – Composer & Lyricist: W.C. Robey
“The Chicago Girls’ March or Two-Step Dance” 1895 – Composer: J.W. Tate
“The Chicago Glide” – Composer: Prof. Joseph Gearen
“Chicago Green” by The Surfaris
“Chicago (How I Love Chicago)” – Composers & Lyricists: Ben Trace, Al Trace & Teddy Phillips.
“The Chicago Hussar’s Quickstep” 1892 – Composer: A. H. Rintelman
“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 Is For Me” by Frank Lamphere
“The Chicago March” 1909 – Composer: Henry S. Sawyer
“Chicago. Marine Band” – Composer: Wm. F. Peters
“Chicago Monkey-Man Blues” by Rosa Henderson
“Chicago, My Home Town” – Composer & Lyricist: Paul S. Hargrow
“Chicago Oberek” by L’il Wally
“Chicago of My Heart” (Dedicated to Chicago on ‘Census day’ June 11) 1930 – Composer: Ben Kanter, Lyricist: Eileen Quinlan
“Chicago One Point Five” by Police Teeth
“Chicago Polka” 1935 – Composer: John Krachtus
“Chicago Post March” 1896 – Composer: Ellis Brooks
“Chicago, Prairie Gem of Illinois” – Composer & Lyricist: Laura Aborn
“Chicago Quickstep” 1882 – Composer: Mrs. D. C. Payne
“Chicago Rhythm” 1929 – Composer: Ben Kanter & Lyricist: Bernie Grossman
“Chicago Scottische” by Alexander Prince
“Chicago Sidewalk” by Arthur Adams
“C-h-i-c-a-g-o Spells Chicago” – Composer: Frank D. Brayn, Lyricist: Chas. H. Smith, Arranger: Al LaRue
“Chicago Stomp Down” by Duke Ellington
“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 Gem on the Shore” 1923 – Composer & Lyricist: J. A. Johnson
“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” 1947 – Composer: Robert Trendler, Lyricist: Jack La Frandre
“The Chicago Two-Step” – Composer: J. P. Brooks
“Chicago Waltz” 1945 – Composer: Joseph P. Elsnic
“Chicago World’s Exposition” 1892 – 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
“City Lights” – Lucky Boys Confusion
“City of CHI” – Juice
“City of Chicago” – Luka Bloom / Christy Moore
“Cold Chicago” – Humming House
“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 to Chicago” – Composer: Dorothy Giffey, Lyricist: James Andrichen
“Closer To Our Graves” – Lucky Boys Confusion
“Cold And Windy Night” by The Fantastic Four (band)
“Come On! Feel the Illinoise! – Sufjan Stevens
“Convoy” – C.W. McCall
“The Corner” – Common ft. Kanye West from Be (Common album) 2005
“Country Girls” – John Schneider
“Crook County” – Twista, from Mobstability 1998, Midwest hip hop
“Cubs in Five” – The Mountain Goats
D[edit]
“Daley’s Gone” – Steve Goodman
“Dancing in the Street”, 1964 – Martha and the Vandellas
“Dead End Street” – Lou Rawls
“Dear Chicago” – Ryan Adams
“Dennehy” – Serengeti (rapper)
“Dr Chicago” by Udo Lindenberg
“A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request” – Steve Goodman
E[edit]
“East Wacker Drive” by Phil Barry
“The Eggplant That Ate Chicago” 1967 – Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band
“The EL” – Rhett Miller
“The Elements: Fire”, recorded 1966, released 2011 – Brian Wilson
“Everything” – Dawn Xiana Moon
F[edit]
“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, “Friday Night is Killing Me”*
“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
“Full Moon” – Common
“Funeral March In Memoriam, Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago” 1893, Composer : W. Herbert Layon
G[edit]
“Get Busy” by Mr. Lee (rapper)
“The Girl From Chicago” by Benny Bell
“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
“Goin’ to Chicago Blues” 1939 – Composer: Count Basie Orchestra, Lou Rawls
“The (Shipped) Gold Standard” – Fall Out Boy from Folie a Deux 2008
“Golden Ring” – Tammy Wynette & George Jones
“Goodbye to Guyville” – Urge Overkill
“Grand Exposition March” – Composer: Louis Falk
“Greater Chicago March” – Composer: Jacob Valentine Havener, Lyricist: Agner Clark Winkler
“Green, Green River” – Composer: Superbad International
“Green Mill Garden Blues” 1920 – Composer: Unknown (88 key Piano Roll)
“Growing Up” – Fall Out Boy, from Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girlfriend 2003
“Greetings. Chicago’s Official Song. 1833-Chicago-1933” – Composer & Lyricist: George D. Gaw, Transcribed & Arranged by: Frank Barden.
“A Guided Tour of Chicago” – The Lawrence Arms 1999, punk rock
H[edit]
“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
“Hands Open”- Snow Patrol
“Happy Summertime” – R. Kelly ft. Snoop Dogg, from TP.3 Reloaded 2005
“The Hat He Never Ate” – Composer: Ben Harney, Lyricist: Howard S. Taylor
“Hello Chicago” – Topher Jones & Amada Ft. Ido vs. The World
“Hello Chicago Fox-Trot” 1933 – Composer: Anthony Misuraca, Lyricist: Joseph Argento
“Hitch Hike” – The Rolling Stones, from Out Of Our Heads 1965, originally by Marvin Gaye
“Home” – Kanye West
“Homecoming” – Kanye West, Ft. Chris Martin from double platinum Graduation 2008
“Homesick At Spacecamp” – Fall Out Boy 2003
I[edit]
“I Am Proud of Chicago” – Composer & Lyricist: Ben Schwartzberg
“I Came Home” – Rhymefest
“I Dream of Chicago” – Parlours
“I Used to Work in Chicago. I Did But I Don’t Anymore” 1944 – Composers & Lyricists: Larry Vincent & Sunny Skylar
“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
“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” 1937- Composers & Lyricists: Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
“In Tha Chi” – Shawnna ft. Syleena Johnson, from Block Music 2006
“In The Kitchen – Umphrey’s McGee
“In The Ghetto”- Elvis Presley
“Into The Chicago Abyss” by Southall Riot
“Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago” – Soul Coughing
“It’s a Cold Winter” by Frankie Knuckles
“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
“I’ve Got All This Ringing In My Ears and None On My Fingers” – Fall Out Boy, from Infinity on High 2007
J[edit]
“Jesus Just Left Chicago” – ZZ Top
“Joe Chicago” by Big Walter Horton
“Joe Murphy’s Farewell To Chicago” by Old Rope String Band
“Jolly Bears, To Those on the Board of Trade of Chicago. Polka Humoristic” 1880 – Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
“Just Blew in From the Windy City” – Doris Day
“Just For Money” by Paul Hardcastle
K[edit]
“Keys to the City” – Ministry & Co Conspirators (industrial metal) 2008
L[edit]
“L.A., Goodbye” – The Ides of March
“Lake Effect Kid” (Demo Song) – Fall Out Boy, from Welcome to the New Administration 2008
“Lake Michigan” – Rogue Wave (California band) 2007
“Lake Shore Drive” – Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
“Lake Shore Driving” – Duran Duran (British group)
“The Last Day of The Fair” 1893 – Composer: Frank Swain
“LAX To O’Hare” – The Academy Is…
“Leaving Chicago” – Knockout
“Let’s Go Chicago! I Will” – Composer & Lyricist: Earl Cleland
“Let’s Go, Go-Go White Sox” by Walter Jagiello
“Lincoln Park. A Solo and Chorus” – Composer: T. Glass, Lyricist: Geo.W. Morse
“Lincoln Park Pirates” – Steve Goodman
“Little Joe From Chicago” 1930 – Composers: Mary Lou Williams, Henry Wells
“Living in Chicago” – The Bee Gees
“Love Can’t Turn Around” by Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk (alias of Farley Keith)
“Love/Hate (So Chicago)” – Shock Stars
“Lovin’s Been Here and Gone to Mecca Flats” 1926 – Composer: Jimmy Blythe
M[edit]
“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
“Mecca Flat Blues” 1924 – Composer: Jimmy Blythe, Lyricists: Jimmy Blythe & Priscilla Stewart
“Meet Me in Chicago” – Mat Kearney, Buddy Guy
“Mercy Me” – Alkaline Trio
“Miss Chicago (The Great ‘Pageant’ Song)” 1921 – Composer: Edmund Braham, Lyricist: W.S. Greelish
“Move Your Body” by Tyree
“Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow” – Brian Wilson
“My Kind of Town” – Frank Sinatra 1964
N[edit]
“The Night Chicago Died” – Paper Lace (British group)
“Nothing Beats Chicago/Ocean is Different” (from the musical Marie Christine)
O[edit]
“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 You Chicago, Oh You New York” 1910 – Composer: Albert Von Tilzer, Lyricists: Junie McCree & Sydney Rosenfeld
“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 The South Side of Chicago” – Freddy Cole
“One Way Ride (To Chicago)” by Lois Johnson
“The Original Chicago Blues” 1915 – Composer: James White
“Our Chicago” (U of C) 1926 – Composer & Lyricist: Norman Reid
“GO” – Ofycial & Wade White Owl feat Papi
P[edit]
“Palmah House Shuffle” (Palmer House) Hotel 1903 – Composer: Libbie Erickson
“Peace Frog” – The Doors
“Picketlines And Pepperspray” – Silent Film
“Prairie Song” – Billy Corgan
“Private Lawns” – Angus & Julia Stone
“Pulaski at Night” – Andrew Bird
“Pulaski Day” – Kidd Russell
“Pump Up Chicago” by Mr. Lee (rapper)
“Put the Blame on Mame” 1946 – Composers & Lyricists: Allan Roberts, Doris Fisher
Q[edit]
R[edit]
“Real Good Girlfriend” – The Mountain Goats
“The Rebirth” – Chapter 13
“Red Hot Chicago” Flying High (musical) 1930 – Composers & Lyricists: B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
“Red Leaves of October” – Michael Peter Smith
“Rest Loved Ones Rest – to the lost lives in the Iroquois Theatre Fire” 1904 – Composer: Eustacio Rosales, Lyricist: Geo. Cooper
“Riverview” – Billy Corgan
“Rogers Park” – Justin Townes Earle
“Route 66”, 1946 – Bobby Troup, Nat King Cole
“Royal Garden Blues” (jazz standard)
“The Rhythm of State Street” (The official song of the State Street Council) 1937 – Composer & Lyricist: Wendall Hall
S[edit]
“San Francisco” – Alkaline Trio
“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
“The Sheik of Chicago (Mustafa)” 1960 – Adaptor & Lyricist: Bob Merrill, Recorded by the Four Lads and Archie Bleyer
“Shy-Town” – Gorillaz
“Sidewalks of Chicago” – Merle Haggard
“Slow Down Chicago” – Canasta
“Smooth Operator” by Sade
“Snakeheads” by The Mountain Goats
“So Long Toots” by Cherry Poppin’ Daddies from Soul Caddy, swing
“Something from Nothing (song)” by Foo Fighters 2014
“Somewhere on Fullerton” – Allister
“The Song of the Ferris Wheel – World’s Fair 1893” – Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth, Lyricist: M. A. Sturgis
“Southbound Ryan” – Dennis DeYoung
“Southside” – Common ft. Kanye West from Finding Forever 2007
South Side (song) – Moby ft. Gwen Stefani 2000
“Southside Chicago Waltz” by Black 47
“South Side Irish” – Arranmore
“Southside Mojo” – JaGoFF
“South Union” – Lucky Boys Confusion
“Star Witness” – Neko Case (about Humboldt Park: http://www.avclub.com/content/node/48266/1)
“State Street Tomorrow – Theme Song” 1930 – Composers: Carelton Colby & Maurice Wetzel from the Radio Station KYW staff.
“State Street Blues” by Synco Jazz Band (featuring Joseph Samuels)
“Stay Chi” – Juice
“Stratford-On-Guy” – Liz Phair
“Sunshine in Chicago” – Sun Kil Moon
“Super Bowl Shuffle” – Chicago Bears Shufflin’ Crew, the 1985 Chicago Bears champions
“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[edit]
“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
“That’s That”, 2006 – Snoop Dogg featuring R. Kelly
“This City”, 2011 – Patrick Stump featuring Lupe Fiasco from Soul Punk
“To Chicago With Love” by Lois Johnson
“Tonight, Tonight”, 1996 – The Smashing Pumpkins, “And the embers never fade in your city by the lake”
“Tonight Will Last Forever”, 2005 – Photographs by Mest
“The Torture Doctor”, 2013 – Alkaline Trio
“The Trianon March”, 1934 – Dedicated to the Chicago Association of Dancing Masters; Composer: R. Alexander Campbell
“Train to Chicago” – Mike Doughty
“True Enough”, 2009 – Everything’s Easy by Girlyman
“Twilight Serenade”, 2005 – Another Ghost by Jason Myles Goss
“Two Words”, 2003 – Kanye West featuring Mos Def, Freeway, and the Boys Choir of Harlem, from The College Dropout
U[edit]
“The University Quickstep”, 1865 – Inscribed to the President and Friends of the Chicago University, Composer: E. M. Shaw
V[edit]
“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[edit]
“Wailin’ At The Trianon” by Lionel Hampton
“We Ride”, 1998 – R. by R. Kelly, featuring Jay-Z, et al.
“Welcome 2 Chicago”, 2001 – Abstract Mindstate featuring Kanye West
“Welcome to Chicago”- Kill Hannah from Wake Up the Sleepers 2009
“We’re All Crazy in Chicago”, 1986 – Jonathon Brandmeier
“We’re Gonna Go to Chicago” (from the musical Marie Christine)
“Weston’s March to Chicago”, 1867 – Composer: Edward Mack; Publisher: S. Brainard & Sons, Cleveland[2]
“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” – performed by both Roy Clark and Bobby Bare in 1964, and Eddy Arnold in 1970
“When You Meet A Man In Chicago” (from Sugar (musical))
“The White City March and Twostep”, 1905 – Composer: Hampton Durant
“Windy City”, 2009 – Joy by Phish
“Windy City” by Rodney Franklin
“Windy City Boogie”, c. 1950–1954 – J. T. Brown
“Windy City Boogie Woogie”, c. 1941–1943 – Nat King Cole[3]
“Windy City Two-Step and March”, 1900 – Composer: F. R. Sweetland
“Windy City Woman” by Charity
“Winter in Chicago”, 2012 – Toil by Flatfoot 56
“The Woman Downstairs”, 1998 – Through the Trees by The Handsome Family
“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[edit]
“You Wake Up in the Morning in Chicago”, 1915 – Composer: Harry Carroll; Lyricists: Ballard MacDonald and Coleman Goetz[4]
“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
Z[edit]
“Zelda”, 2007 – Isn’t This Supposed to Be Fun!? by Farewell