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This is a list of songs about Chicago.

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Modern songs - Post 1960

Old compositions 1800 - 1959

A

  • "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance. Fantasie for Piano." 1893 - Composer Gustav Luders
  • "Apostrophe to Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden
  • "Awake! Awake!" - Composer & Lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden

B

  • "The Belle of Chicago" 1892 - Composer: John Phillip Sousa
  • "The Belle of Chicago Barn Dance" - Composer: Theo. Bonheur
  • "The Belle of Lincoln Park" - Composer & Lyricist: Geo. Maywood
  • "Big Bill the Builder" (mayor) 1928 - Composers & Lyricists: Milton Weil, Bernie Grossman & Larry Shay
  • "The Billiken Man" - Composer: Melville J. Gideon, Lyricist: E. Ray Goetz, Sung by Blanche Ring
  • "Boost Chicago" - Composer: Armin P. Bauer
  • "The Burning of the Iroquois" (theater) 1904 - Composer: Thos. R. Confare, Lyricist: Morris S. Silver

C

  • "Cairo Street Waltz" 1893 - Composer: Signor Guglielmo Ricci
  • "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 Beautiful" - Composer & Lyricist: Juanita Mabelle Rosness
  • "Chicago Bound Blues" 1923 - Composer & Lyricist: Lovie Austin
  • "Chicago by the Inland Sea" - Composer & Lyricist: Russell Wood
  • "Chicago Centennial Jubilee March 1803-1903" - 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
  • "Chicago Day Waltz" 1893 - Composer: G. Valisi
  • "The Chicago Express (March Two-Step)" 1905 - Composer: Percy Wenrich
  • "Chicago for Christ" 1910 - Composer & Lyricist: Robert Harkness
  • "Chicago's Gift to a 'Nation's Hero'" (U.S. Grant) 1891 - Composer & Lyricist: W.C. Robey
  • "The Chicago Glide" - Composer: Prof. Joseph Gearen
  • "Chicago (How I Love Chicago)" - Composers & Lyricists: Ben Trace, Al Trace & Teddy Phillips.
  • "Chicago, Illinois (Looks Mighty Good to Me)" - Composer: Ernest H. Kelley, Lyricist: Jas. J. Kennedy, Arranger: Jean Walz
  • "C-h-i-c-a-g-o in Illinois" - Composer & Lyricist: Tom Lynn, Editor: Jack Tomlinson
  • "The Chicago March" 1909 - Composer: Henry S. Sawyer
  • "Chicago. Marine Band" - Composer: Wm. F. Peters
  • "Chicago, My Home Town" - Composer & Lyricist: Paul S. Hargrow
  • "Chicago Polka" 1935 - Composer: John Krachtus
  • "Chicago, Prairie Gem of Illinois" - Composer & Lyricist: Laura Aborn
  • "Chicago Quickstep" 1882 - Composer: Mrs. D. C. Payne
  • "C-h-i-c-a-g-o Spells Chicago" - Composer: Frank D. Brayn, Lyricist: Chas. H. Smith, Arranger: Al LaRue
  • "Chicago Style" 1952 - Composer: James Van Heusen, Lyricist: Johnny Burke
  • "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" 1922 (originally spelled Todd'ling) - Composer & Lyricist: Fred Fisher
  • "Chicago, the City of Today" - Composer: Bill Snyder, Lyricist: Ann Marsters
  • "Chicago, the Most Beautiful City" - Composer & Lyricist: Frank Padula
  • "Chicago Theatre of the Air Theme" - Composer: Adolf G. Hoffmann, Lyricist: Francis Coughlin
  • "Chicago Town Waltzes" 1893 - Composer: Rudolph Patek, T.R.A.M Vienna
  • "Chicago Tribune March" 1893 - Composer: W. Paris Chambers
  • "The Chicago Tribune Centennial March" - Composer: Robert Trendler, Lyricist: Jack La Frandre
  • "The Chicago Two-Step" - Composer: J. P. Brooks
  • "Chicago Waltz" 1945 - Composer: Joseph P. Elsnic
  • "Chicago World's Exposition" - Composer: Victor Vogel
  • "City of Promise. 1934 Century of Progress Song" - Composer: Jos. Snabl-Antes, Lyricist (Czech text): Vasek Niederle, Lyricist (English trans.): Libushka Bartusek
  • "Columbia Fair (Grand March)" - Composer: Theodore Moelling
  • "Columbian 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

D

E

F

  • "Ferris Wheel Waltz" 1893 - Composer: G. Valisi, Lyricist: Harry C. Clyde
  • "The Forest of Love and Romance, Theme song of the Black Forest Village, A Century of Progress Chicago" 1933 - Composer: Ernie Kratzinger, Lyricist: Charles Kallen
  • "Funeral March In Memoriam, Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago" 1893, Composer : W. Herbert Layon

G

  • "Go Go Chicago. Wonder City Home of Mine." - Composer & Lyricist : Clitus M. Wickens
  • "Goin' to Chicago Blues" 1939 - Composer: Count Basie Orchestra
  • "Grand Exposition March" - Composer: Louis Falk
  • "Greater Chicago March" - Composer: Jacob Valentine Havener, Lyricist: Agner Clark Winkler
  • "Green Mill Garden Blues" 1920 - Composer: Unknown
  • "Greetings. Chicago's Official Song. 1833-Chicago-1933" - Composer & Lyricist: George D. Gaw, Transcribed & Arranged by: Frank Barden.

H

  • "Hail Chicago (March)" 1933 - Composer: Stanley Kay, Lyricist: A. Seaborg
  • "Hail, Chicago! Official Song of the Pageant of Progress" 1921 - Composer: Bob Allen, Lyricist: Ted Turnquist
  • "Hail to Thee, Chicago" - Composer: John E. King, Lyricist: Estella A. Johnson-Hunt
  • "The Hat He Never Ate" - Composer: Ben Harney, Lyricist: Howard S. Taylor
  • "Hello Chicago Fox-Trot" 1933 - Composer: Anthony Misuraca, Lyricist: Joseph Argento

I

  • "I Am Proud of Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Ben Schwartzberg
  • "I Used to Work in Chicago. I Did But I Don't Anymore" 1946 - Composers & Lyricists: Larry Vincent & Sunny Skylar
  • "I'll Meet You In Chicago (At The Fair)" 1928 - Composers & Lyricists: Charlie Harrison & Fred Rose
  • "I'm from Chicago" - Composer: Leo Edwards, Lyricist: Blanche Merrill
  • "I'm Going Right Back to Chicago" (Coon Song) 1906 - Composer: Egbert Van Alstyne, Lyricist: Harry Williams
  • "In Cairo Street: A Characteristic Fantasie for Piano" 1893 - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
  • "In Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Olive Jeane
  • "In 1933. (Where Will You Be)" - Composer & Lyricist: Art Kassel, Arranger: Charles Adams
  • "In Old Chicago" 1937- Composers & Lyricists: Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
  • "It's a Way They Have in Chicago" - Composer: Gustav Luders, Lyricist: M. E. Rourke

J

  • "Jolly Bears, To Those on the Board of Trade of Chicago. Polka Humoristic" 1880 - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth

K

L

  • "The Last Day of The Fair" 1893 - Composer: Frank Swain
  • "Let's Go Chicago! I Will" - Composer & Lyricist: Earl Cleland
  • "Lincoln Park. A Solo and Chorus" - Composer: T. Glass, Lyricist: Geo.W. Morse
  • "Lovin's Been Here and Gone to Mecca Flats" 1926 - Composer: Jimmy Blythe

M

  • "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
  • "Miss Chicago (The Great 'Pageant' Song)" 1921 - Composer: Edmund Braham, Lyricist: W.S. Greelish

N

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 Original Chicago Blues" 1915 - Composer: James White
  • "Our Chicago" (U of C) 1926 - Composer & Lyricist: Norman Reid

P

Q

R

  • "The Rhythm of State Street" (The official song of the State Street Council) 1937 - Composer & Lyricist: Wendall Hall

S

  • "State Street Tomorrow - Theme Song" 1930 - Composers: Carelton Colby & Maurice Wetzel from the Radio Station KYW staff.
  • "She Shook Him In Chicago" - (Madame Sherry 1909) - Composer: Karl L. Hoschna, Lyricist: Otto Hauerbach
  • "The Song of the Ferris Wheel - World's Fair 1893" - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth, Lyricist: M. A. Sturgis
  • "Sweet Home Chicago" 1936 - Composer: Robert Johnson, Lyricists: Robert Johnson & Roosevelt Sykes

T

U

V

  • "The Viking March - Captain Andersen's Viking Ship from Norway to the World's Fair" 1893 - Composer: H.C. Verner

W

  • "Wave the Flag, A Song of University of Chicago" 1928 - Composer: Gordon Erickson
  • "Wheels A-Rolling, Official Song - Chicago Railroad Fair" 1948 - Composer: Helen Purcell Maxwell, Lyricist: Philip Maxwell
  • "The White City March and Twostep" 1905 - Composer: Hampton Durant
  • "Windy City Two-Step and March" 1900 - Composer: F.R. Sweetland
  • "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

  • "You Wake Up in the Morning in Chicago" 1915 - Composer: Harry Carroll, Lyricists: Ballard Macdonald & Coleman Goetz

Z

Songs about Chicago Sport teams

  • "The White Sox March" 1907 - Composer: T.F. Durand
  • "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
  • "Hurrah for the Cubs" 1930 - Composer: Burrell Van Buren, Lyricist: Betty Douglas
  • "Come On You Cubs Play Ball" 1937 - Composer & Lyricists: anon, Tiffany Music Company
  • "Watch the Cubs Play Ball" 1941 - Composer & Lyricist: Harry A. Magill
  • "Bear Down Chicago Bears" 1941 - Composer & Lyricist: Jerry Downs
  • "Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox" 1959 - Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers
  • "Here Come the Hawks" 1968 - Composer: J. Swayzee, Producer: The Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir
  • "The Chicago Cubs Song - Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel!" 1969 - Composer: John Frigo, Lyricist: I. C. Haag
  • "Go Cubs Go" 1984 - Steve Goodman
  • "Super Bowl Shuffle" 1985 - Composers: B. Daniels, L. Barry, Lyricists: R. Meyer, M. Owens, Performers: Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew, the 1985 Chicago Bears

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