1. 0–9

2. A

3. B

4. C

5. D

6. E

7. F

8. G

9. H

10. I

11. J

12. K

13. L

14. M

15. N

16. O

17. P

18. Q

19. R

20. S

21. T

22. U

23. V

24. W

25. Y

26. Z

27. Songs about Chicago sport teams

28. References

This is a list of songs about Chicago.

For example: In 2018 Fall Out Boy released the Lake Effect Kid EP, and all three songs on the EP are in some way an ode to Chicago. The songs (which are included in the list below) are City in a Garden, Lake Effect Kid, and Super Fade

0–9

• "1215 W. Belmont" - Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell
• "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
• "47th Street Stomp" – Jimmy Bertrand's Washboard Wizards
• "5-3-10-4", 2000 – Maybe I'll Catch Fire - Alkaline Trio
• "55th Street" - Lidell Townsell
• "70th & King Drive" – Hot Hanas Hula

A

• "A Cicada Of Chicago" by Pepe Ahlqvist
• "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance. Fantasie for Piano.", 1893 – composer: Gustav Luders^[1]
• "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 Streets of Lombard" – Ground Zero
• "Back to Chicago" – Styx, from Edge of the Century, 1990
• "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" – Jim Croce
• "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 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)" – Sidney Brown
• "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
• "Boost Chicago" – composer: Armin P. Bauer
• "Born in Chicago" – Paul Butterfield 1965, blues
• "Born in Illinois" (in a place they call Chicago) Music & Lyrics by Mark "Big Poppa" Stampley (Chicago Native)Recorded by Award Winning Blues Artist 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

C

• "Calling Me Home, Chicago", 1985 – composer: Paul David Wilson
• "Casimir Pulaski Day" – Sufjan Stevens
• "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-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
• "The Chi-Town Nightlife" – Paul Johnson
• "Chicago" – Tom Waits
• "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 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 City" – George "Harmonica" Smith
• "The Chicago Conspiracy" – David Peel
• "Chicago Cottage" – The Mirage
• "The Chicago Cyclist March", 1896 – composer: Hans Liné
• "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 H5
• "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 Here I Come" – Willie Dixon & Johnny Winter
• "Chicago High Life" – Earl Hines
• "The Chicago Hussar's Quickstep", 1892 – composer: A. H. Rintelman
• "The Chicago Hustle" - Evelyn Thomas
• "Chicago, Illinois" - Ben Verdery
• "Chicago, Illinois" - Bobby Short
• "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
• "Chicago in Mind" – Albert Ammons
• "Chicago Jackmaster" - K-Alexi
• "Chicago Line" - John Mayall
• "Chicago Man" – Eddie Shaw
• "The Chicago March", 1909 – composer: Henry S. Sawyer
• "Chicago Melody" - Axel Zwingenberger
• "Chicago Meltdown" - Impakt
• "Chicago Monkey-Man Blues" – Rosa Henderson
• "Chicago Morning" – Chris Rea
• "Chicago North Western" – Juicy Lucy
• "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 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 Stomp" - Pinetop Perkins
• "Chicago Stomp Down" – Duke Ellington
• "Chicago Stomps" – Jimmy Blythe
• "The Chicago Story" - Jimmy Snyder
• "Chicago Style" - Dave Specter
• "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)", 1922 (originally spelled Todd'ling) – composer & lyricist: Fred Fisher; popularized by Frank Sinatra
• "The Chicago Theme (Love Loop)" – Hubert Laws
• "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 Twist" – Werner Baumgart
• "The Chicago Two-Step" – composer: J. P. Brooks
• "Chicago Wind" – Merle Haggard
• "Chicago Woman" - The Oxfords
• "Chicago" – ABC
• "Chicago" – Roy Ayers
• "Chicago" – Big D and the Kids Table
• "Chicago" – Birdpaula
• "Chicago" – Bis
• "Chicago" – Clueso
• "Chicago" – Kiki Dee
• "Chicago" – Dynastie Crisis
• "Chicago" – The Doobie Brothers
• "Chicago" – Enuff Z'nuff
• "Chicago" – Flipturn
• "Chicago" – Frédéric François
• "Chicago" – Gemini One
• "Chicago" – Hieroglyphics
• "Chicago" – Ingram Hill
• "Chicago" – Michael Jackson
• "Chicago" – Alexz Johnson
• "Chicago – Ivan Kuchin
• "Chicago" – Luther Allison
• "Chicago" – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
• "Chicago" – The Masterbuilders
• "Chicago" – Mat Kearney
• "Chicago" – Ted Mulry
• "Chicago (We Can Change the World)" – Graham Nash
• "Chicago" – Des O'Connor
• "Chicago" – Portugal. The Man
• "Chicago" – The Purple Hearts
• "Chicago" – Django Reinhardt
• "Chicago" – Lucy Wainwright Roche
• "Chicago" – Rodgers & Hart
• "Chicago" – Alexander Rosenbaum
• "Chicago" – Shawnna
• "Chicago" – Simoncino
• "Chicago" – Sufjan Stevens
• "Chicago" – The Tossers
• "Chicago" – The Uglysuit
• "Chicago" – Kate Voegele
• "Chicago" – Sean Watkins
• "Chicago" – Andre Williams
• "Chicago 60616" - Kenny and the Kasuals
• "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
• "Chicago, Chicago" – Lord Invader
• "Chicago, Damn" – Bobbi Humphrey
• "Chicago, Illinois" – from Victor/Victoria
• "Chicago, Mon Amour" – Made in Sweden
• "Chicago My Home Town" – Barry Goldberg
• "Chicago, My Home Town" – composer & lyricist: Paul S. Hargrow
• "Chicago, New York" – The Aislers Set
• "Chicago, Now!" – The Fall
• "Chicago, Prairie Gem of Illinois" – composer & lyricist: Laura Aborn
• "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..." – Screeching Weasel
• "Chicago Woman" - Sonny Turner & Sound Limited
• "Chicago Women" - Willie James Lyons
• "Chicagoland Twirl Polka" – Frankie Yankovic
• "Chicago x 12" – Rogue Wave
• "Christmas in Chicago" – Marilyn Scott
• "City in a Garden" – Fall Out Boy 2018
• "City Lights" – Lucky Boys Confusion
• "City of CHI" – Juice
• "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 Steet" – Elmer Bernstein
• "Closer to Our Graves" – Lucky Boys Confusion
• "Cold and Windy Night" – The Fantastic Four
• "Cold Chicago" – Humming House^[2]
• "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
• "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
• "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
• "Dear Chicago" – Ryan Adams
• "Dearborn Steeet Breakdown" – Charles Avery
• "Dennehy" – Serengeti
• "Dr. Chicago" – Udo Lindenberg
• "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" – Steve Goodman

E

• "East Chicago Blues" – Sparks Brothers
• "East Wacker Drive" – Phil Barry
• "End Of Chicago" - Shock Stars
• "An Esthete On Clark Street" – William Russo
• "Everything" – Dawn Xiana Moon
• "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
• "Fire", recorded 1966, released 2011 – Brian Wilson
• "Epitaph Of A Small Winner" by Archie Shepp & Chicago Beau

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
• "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
• "Full Moon" – Common
• "Funeral March in Memoriam, Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago", 1893, composer: W. Herbert Layon

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
• "Goodbye to Guyville" – Urge Overkill
• "Got To Leave Chi-Town" - Chicago Blues A Living History
• "Grand Exposition March" – composer: Louis Falk
• "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
• "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
• "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
• "Highway 55" – The O'Kanes
• "Hitch Hike" – The Rolling Stones, from Out Of Our Heads, 1965; originally by Marvin Gaye
• "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

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 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 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–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'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
• "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
• "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
• "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
• "Just Blew in from the Windy City" – Doris Day, 1953
• "Just for Money" – Paul Hardcastle

K

• "Keys to the City" – Ministry & Co Conspirators, 2008

L

• "Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox" – Walter Jagiello
• "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 (Slight Return)" – Harris Newman
• "Lake Shore Driving" – Duran Duran 1988
• "Lakeshore Cowboy" – Ramsey Lewis
• "The Last Day of the Fair", 1893 – composer: Frank Swain
• "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
• "Lincoln Park Pirates" – Steve Goodman
• "Little Joe from Chicago", 1930 – composers: Mary Lou Williams, Henry Wells
• "Living in Chicago" – The Bee Gees
• "London House" – Billy Walker
• "Long Line To Chicago" - Larry Hosford
• "Lovin's Been Here and Gone to Mecca Flats", 1926 – composer: Jimmy Blythe

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
• "Mean Old Chicago" - Bob Margolin
• "Mecca Flat Blues", 1924 – composer: Jimmy Blythe; lyricists: Jimmy Blythe & Priscilla Stewart
• "Meet Me in Chicago" – Mat Kearney, Buddy Guy from Rhythm & Blues
• "Memphis-Chicago Blues" – Julio Finn Band (featuring Memphis Slim)
• "Mercy Me" – Alkaline Trio
• "Miss Chicago (The Great 'Pageant' Song)", 1921 – composer: Edmund Braham; lyricist: W.S. Greelish
• "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" – Brian Wilson
• "Muddy Waters (Little Walter/Lakeshore Theme/Willie D./Otis/Whisper From Theresa's/Walkin' Up Halsted)" – Glen Hall & Gil Evans
• "My Kind of Town" – Frank Sinatra, 1964

N

• "New West Side Stroll" - Dave Specter
• "New York/Chicago" - Mark Imperial
• "New York To Chicago" - Chubby Jackson
• "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

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 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 the South Side of Chicago" – Freddy Cole
• "One Way Ride (To Chicago)" – Lois Johnson
• "Only in Chicago" – Barry Manilow
• "The Original Chicago Blues", 1915 – composer: James White
• "Our Chicago" (U of C), 1926 – composer & lyricist: Norman Reid

P

• "Palmah House Shuffle" (Palmer House Hotel), 1903 – composer: Libbie Erickson
• "Pantin' in the Panther Room" – Fats Waller
• "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" – Mr. Lee
• "Put the Blame on Mame", 1946 – composers & lyricists: Allan Roberts, Doris Fisher

Q

R

• "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
• "Relax With Chicago" - K-Alexi
• "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))
• "Rock-Skippin' at the Blue Note" – Duke Ellington
• "Royal Garden Blues" (jazz standard)
• "The Rebirth" – Chapter 13

S

• "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
• "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
• "Showtime in Chicago" – Joe Jackson
• "Shy-Town" – Gorillaz
• "Sidewalks of Chicago" – Merle Haggard
• "Silent Night/7 O' Clock News" – Simon & Garfunkel
• "Simple Man" by Wale
• "Slow Down Chicago" – Canasta
• "Snakeheads" – The Mountain Goats
• "So Long Toots" – Cherry Poppin' Daddies from Soul Caddy
• "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 Side" – Moby, featuring Gwen Stefani, 2001
• "South Side Irish" – Arranmore
• "South Side of Chicago" – Eddie Burns
• "South Union" – Lucky Boys Confusion
• "Southbound Ryan" – Dennis DeYoung
• "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
• "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 Sweet" - Gerald Wilson Orchestra
• "State Street Tomorrow – Theme Song", 1930 – composers: Carelton Colby & Maurice Wetzel from the Radio Station KYW staff
• "Stay Chi" – Juice
• "Stell–" – Frode Gjerstad Trio With Steve Swell
• "Stony Island Band" - Stony Island Band (from Stony Island (film))
• "Stratford-on-Guy" – Liz Phair, 1993
• "Strings Of Chicago" - Lidell Townsell
• "Stuck in Chicago" – Cate Brothers
• "Sunshine in Chicago" – Sun Kil Moon
• "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
• "That's That", 2006 – Snoop Dogg featuring R. Kelly
• "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
• "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
• "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 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

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
• "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
• "Welcome 2 Chicago", 2001 – Abstract Mindstate featuring Kanye West
• "Welcome to Chicago" – Kill Hannah from Wake Up the Sleepers, 2009
• "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
• "Weston's March to Chicago", 1867 – composer: Edward Mack; publisher: S. Brainard & Sons, Cleveland^[3]
• "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
• "White Sox Stomp" – Jimmy Yancey
• "Windy City Blues" - Ernie Hawks And The Soul Investigators
• "Windy City Blues" – Mike Westbrook
• "Windy City Boogie Woogie", c. 1941–1943 – Nat King Cole^[4]
• "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" – 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
• "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^[5]
• "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

• "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^[6]
• "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

References

• 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
• 1945 (Robert Conroy)
• 1945 Rose Bowl
• 1945 Salvadoran presidential election
• 1945 Segunda División Peruana
• 1945 Southeast Florida Hurricane
• 1945 Southwark Borough election
• 1945 South West African legislative election
• 1945 Soviet Top League
• 1945 Stanley Cup Final
• 1945 Sugar Bowl
• 1945 Sun Bowl
• 1945 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
• 1945 TANFL Season
• 1945 TANFL season
• 1945 Texas A&M Aggies football team
• 1945 Texas Longhorns football team
• 1945 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
• 1945 Toronto Argonauts season
• 1945 Toronto municipal election
• 1945 Turkish National Division
• 1945 United Kingdom General Election
• 1945 Uruguayan Primera Division
• 1945 Uruguayan Primera División
• 1945 USC Trojans football team