Chicago
American rock band
Facts
18 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- musical group
- Official website
- www.chicagotheband.com[20]
Status and dates
Relations
- Has part(s)
- Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Robert Lamm, James Pankow[16][17]
More facts +13
- Award received
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group[2][3][4]
- Genre
- jazz, soft rock, pop rock, rock music, jazz fusion, adult contemporary music, jazz rock[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist[21]
- Country of origin
- United States[15]
- Discography
- Chicago discography[14]
- Member category
- Category:Chicago (band) members
- Name
- Chicago[26]
- Record label
- Warner Bros. Records, Columbia Records[12][13]
- Social media followers
- 56k (44k–198k, n=5)
- Start of work period
- 1967[24]
- Topic has template
- Template:Chicago (band)[22]
🏷️ Also known as
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en Chicago (band)
en Chicago (musical group)
en Chicago Transit Authority
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de The Big Thing
es Chicago Transit Authority
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fa گروه شیکاگو
fi The Chicago Transit Authority
he שיקגו
id Chicago Transit Authority
id Chicago (band)
id Chicago (grup musik)
id The Big Thing
it Chicago Transit Authority
ja シカゴ
ko 시카고
🔖 Identifiers · 82
- ISNI
- 0000000119423263
- VIAF cluster ID
- 4391149068535765730007
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n85367841
- GND ID
- 1212016-9
- AZLyrics.com artist ID
- c/chicago
- Acharts.co artist ID
- chicago
- All About Jazz musician ID
- 54100
- AllMusic artist ID
- mn0000110161
- Amazon Music artist ID
- B000QJJS6M
- Apple Music artist ID
- 197043
- BBC Things ID
- 1c7ec707-91ee-4ae1-abf8-c8ea1c546eed
- BIBSYS ID
- 15008824
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- BabelNet ID
- 00928659n
- Bandsintown artist ID
- 28538
- Billboard artist ID
- chicago
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- chicago
- Canadiana Authorities ID (former scheme)
- 0015B9040
- Canadiana Name Authority ID
- ncf10011971
- Cultureel Woordenboek ID
- populaire-muziek/chicago
- Deezer artist ID
- 2592
- Discogs artist ID
- 114483
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/Chicago-American-rock-group
- FAST ID
- 612384
- Facebook username
- Chicago.Official
- Freebase ID
- /m/01vrwfv
- Genius artist ID
- Chicago
- Genius artist numeric ID
- 36556
- Grammy Awards artist ID
- chicago, Chicago/8352
- Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID
- 4740
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Chicago_-_rockegruppe
- IHeart artist ID
- 5663
- IMDb ID
- nm1345838
- IMVDb artist ID
- chicago
- Instagram username
- chicagotheband
- Jaxsta profile ID
- cf26e203-8b9f-4237-a89f-6ee459f13647
- Juno Download artist ID
- Chicago
- KANTO ID
- 000177555
- Krugosvet article (archived)
- kultura_i_obrazovanie/muzyka/CHIKAGO.html
- Larousse ID
- groupe-musical/wd/155960
- Last.fm ID
- Chicago
- Libraries Australia ID
- 35728791
- LyricsTranslate ID
- chicago-lyrics.html
- MTV Germany artist ID
- 56sme9/chicago
- Munzinger Pop ID
- 02000000898
- MuseScore artist ID
- 129222
- MusicBrainz artist ID
- 3f5be744-e867-42fb-8913-5fd69e4099b5
- Musik-Sammler.de artist ID
- 2934
- Musixmatch artist ID
- Chicago
- Muziekweb performer ID
- M00000018057
- Myspace ID
- chicagotheband
- NE.se ID
- chicago-(rockgruppen)
- NL CR AUT ID
- xx0014740
- NLA Trove people ID
- 1060872
- NSK (VIAF) ID
- 000066532
- NSK ID
- 981005666173709366
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007407495405171
- National Library of Lithuania ID
- LNB:V*394477;=BU
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX99421
- Pandora artist ID
- ARJrV9jjltkVmZZ
- Pinterest username
- chicagotheband
- Quora topic ID
- Chicago-band
- RERO ID (legacy)
- A003101904, A025402357
- Rate Your Music artist ID
- chicago
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ID
- chicago
- Rolling Stone artist ID
- chicago
- SNAC ARK ID
- w6q30mcr
- SVKKL authority ID
- 0283768-Chicago-hudebni-skupina
- SecondHandSongs artist ID
- 3021
- Setlist.fm artist ID
- 63d6be7b
- Share-VDE 1.0 author ID
- 1778024
- Shazam artist ID
- 2667
- Songkick artist ID
- 2475711
- SoundCloud ID
- chicago_the_band
- Spotify artist ID
- 3iDD7bnsjL9J4fO298r0L0
- Tidal artist ID
- 13397
- Topic's main category
- Category:Chicago (band)
- WhoSampled artist ID
- Chicago
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["MusicAct", "Chicago::fb457"]
- X (Twitter) username
- chicagotheband
- Yale LUX ID
- group/6bc32148-20f8-4d2b-9320-c302de0f1e7f
- YouTube channel ID
- UCK0TuNeYqg9oYGSksX-jNkg, UC8vVfqDySe2dz-wCNcy6jew
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🔗 Connections
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Chicago,
Chicago III,
Chicago X,
Chicago V,
Chicago VI,
Chicago VII,
Chicago 17,
Chicago VIII
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Genre 7
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Has part(s) 4
Award received 2
Contained subdivisions 2
← Category combines topics 2
Country of origin 1
Different from 1
Instance of 1
Location of formation 1
Member category 1
Nominated for 1
Record label 1
Topic has template 1
Topic's main category 1
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Summary
Chicago is a musical group[1].
Product Details
The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.
MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia
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Type: Group[27]
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Country: US[28]
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Began / founded: 1967[29]
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Genre(s): aor, jazz, jazz rock, pop, pop rock, rock, soft rock[30]
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Community tags: adult contemporary, aor, jazz, jazz rock, jazz-rock, pop, pop rock, rock, soft rock[31]
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MusicBrainz ID: 3f5be744-e867-42fb-8913-5fd69e4099b5[32]
FAQs
What awards did Chicago receive?
Honors received include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[2], star on Hollywood Walk of Fame[3], and American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group[4].