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
*"An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance. Fantasie for Piano.", 1893 – composer: Gustav Luders
*"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
*"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
*"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
*"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) 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-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" – 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 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 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 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
*"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 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 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 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 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 (originally spelled Todd'ling) – composer & lyricist: Fred Fisher; popularized by Frank Sinatra
*"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 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" - 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
*"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" - 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" – Shawnna
*"Chicago" – Simoncino
*"Chicago" – Sufjan Stevens
*"Chicago" – The Tossers
*"Chicago" – The Uglysuit
*"Chicago" – Kate Voegele
*"Chicago" – Sean Watkins
*"Chicago" – Andre Williams
*"Chicago - 1926" - Nanette Workman
*"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, Chicago" - Teddy Phillips And His Orchestra featuring Colleen Lovett
*"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 Southside" - CZR (house record)
*"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 Street" – Elmer Bernstein
*"Clean Up Chicago" - Josef Myrow and Mack Gordon
*"Closer to Our Graves" – Lucky Boys Confusion
*"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
*"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
*"Dearie" - Gordon MacRae & Jo Stafford
*"Dennehy" – Serengeti
*"Destination - Chicago" - Commander Tom
*"Don't Call On Me" - The Monkees
*"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
*"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
*"The Elements: Fire", recorded 1966, released 2011 – Brian Wilson
*"Epitaph Of A Small Winner" by Archie Shepp & Chicago Beau
*"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
*"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
*"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
*"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
*"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 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
*"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'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
*"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==
*"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 (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
*"Lincoln Park Pirates" – Steve Goodman
*"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
*"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" – Jimmy McPartland And Art Hodes
*"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 (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
*"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, 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 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
*"The Osmosis Suite - Chicago Indian" - System 7 (band)
*"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
*"The Payback" - James Brown
*"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 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
*"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))
*"Rock-Skippin' at the Blue Note" – Duke Ellington
*"Royal Garden Blues" (jazz standard)
*"The Rebirth" – Chapter 13
*"Route 90" - Clarence Garlow
*"The Runaway Train" - Michael Holliday
==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
*"Silver City" – Hey Champ
*"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 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
*"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
*"Stell–" – Frode Gjerstad Trio With Steve Swell
*"Stock Yards 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
*"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)
*"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 (#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 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
==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" - Gene Farris (British chart hit in 2003)
*"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
*"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
*"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
*"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" Berquist100 Things Cubs Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. Jimmy Greenfield, 2012.
*"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==