Below are some examples highlighted in a 400-song playlist featuring only Chicago area artists. Any artists from the metro area, or if they spent significant time in the area, were considered.

The song is so hot that Green Day borrowed generously from it for “Brain Stew.” Check out this YouTube clip of the two songs side-by-side. Find out five things you didn’t know about Chicago.

After achieving isolated bursts of success over the past decade, Thicke enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2013 with his hit ‘Blurred Lines’ and its very racy music video.

Here's every song Chicago played at Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix on Thursday, Aug. 29, before returning to the stage to join Earth, Wind & Fire on the encore. “Introduction” ...