List of songs about Chicago

This is a list of songs about Chicago.

0–9

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

A

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

B

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

C

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

D

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

E

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

F

 * "Fair Women of Chicago Waltzes", 1893 – composer: Theo. H. Northrup
 * "Far, Far Away" – Wilco
 * "Ferris Wheel March", 1893 – composer: Geo. Maywood
 * "Ferris Wheel Waltz", 1893 – composer: G. Valisi; lyricist: Harry C. Clyde
 * "First Steps", 1993 – composer: Tommy Stinson, from Bash & Pop
 * "Fly Away" - TheFatRat
 * "Food from Chicago" – Lord Christo
 * "The Forest of Love and Romance, Theme song of the Black Forest Village, A Century of Progress Chicago", 1933 – composer: Ernie Kratzinger; lyricist: Charles Kallen
 * "Forty-Seventh and State" – Bud Freeman
 * "From Chicago to the Sky" – Seventh Avenue
 * "From Chicago with Love" – Harlan Howard
 * "From London to Chicago" - Wild Bob Burgos (from Matchbox (band)) & The Dreadnoughts
 * "Full Moon" – Common
 * "Funeral March in Memoriam, Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago", 1893, composer: W. Herbert Layon
 * "Funk, Chicago Style" - Dick Hyman

G

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

H

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

I

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

J

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

K

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

L

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

M

 * "Mama Chicago" – Bonnie Koloc
 * "Mama Chicago" – Mike Westbrook
 * "The Man from the South with a Big Cigar in his Mouth", 1930 – composers & lyricists: Rube Bloom & Harry M. Woods
 * "The March Maroon, University of Chicago March and Two-Step", 1906 – composer: Harry Turner
 * "Marching on to Chicago", 1933 – composers & lyricists: Richard Daly, Thomas Parmiter & Clitus Wickens
 * "Maxwell Street" – Chris Rea
 * "Maxwell Street Boogie" - Rob Hoeke
 * "Maxwell Street Shuffle" – Barry Goldberg
 * "Mayday" - TheFatRat
 * "Me and My Broken Heart - Rixton
 * "Mean Old Chicago" - Bob Margolin
 * "Mecca Flat Blues", 1924 – composer: Jimmy Blythe; lyricists: Jimmy Blythe & Priscilla Stewart
 * "Meet Me in Chicago" – Jimmy McPartland And Art Hodes
 * "Meet Me in Chicago" – Mat Kearney, Buddy Guy from Rhythm & Blues
 * "Melancholium" - Aksil Beats
 * "Memphis-Chicago Blues" – Julio Finn Band (featuring Memphis Slim)
 * "Mercy Me" – Alkaline Trio
 * "Miracle" - Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding
 * "Miss Chicago (The Great 'Pageant' Song)", 1921 – composer: Edmund Braham; lyricist: W.S. Greelish
 * "Moon River" - Jacob Collier
 * "Monody" - TheFatRat
 * "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" – Brian Wilson
 * "The Motto" - Tiësto & Ava Max
 * "Muddy Waters (Little Walter/Lakeshore Theme/Willie D./Otis/Whisper From Theresa's/Walkin' Up Halsted)" – Glen Hall & Gil Evans
 * "Must Have Been The Wind" - Alec Benjamin
 * "My Kind of Town" – Frank Sinatra, 1964 (nominated for the 1964 Academy Award for Best Original Song)

N

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

O

 * "Ode for the opening of the World's Fair. Held at Chicago, 1892" – composer: C. W. Chadwick; lyricist: Harriet Monroe
 * "Oh City of a Century" – composer: Eleanor Everest Freer
 * "Oh, Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh, Yes! The Dancing Girls will give a Show before they Start for Chicago!" from Little Christopher Columbus
 * "Oh You Chicago, Oh You New York", 1910 – composer: Albert Von Tilzer; lyricists: Junie McCree & Sydney Rosenfeld
 * "The Oldest Living Groupie in Chicago" – Doug Ashdown
 * "On a Freezing Chicago Street" – Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
 * "On the Midway, or the Jolly Bum, Bum", 1893 – composer & lyricist: Louis Ortenstein
 * "On and On" by Cartoon (feat. Daniel Levi)
 * "On the South Side of Chicago" – Vic Damone, Freddy Cole
 * "One Way Ride (To Chicago)" – Lois Johnson
 * "Only in Chicago" – Barry Manilow
 * "The Original Chicago Blues", 1915 – composer: James White
 * "The Osmosis Suite - Chicago Indian" - System 7 (band)
 * "Our Chicago" (U of C), 1926 – composer & lyricist: Norman Reid
 * "Out Running Karma" - Alec Benjamin

P

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

R

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

S

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

T

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

U

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

V

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

W

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

Y

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

Z

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

Songs about Chicago sport teams

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