I need suggestions for songs about Chicago - no profanity, as I need to use these with kids. Thanks!?

Question

I have all the usual suspects ("Sweet Home Chicago," "My Kind of Town," etc) but would like a bigger variety. Would especially like to include some hip-hop since we have such a strong hip-hop culture here, but can't use songs with cursing or excessive sex/violence/drug use. (Yes, Kanye, I'm talking to you. LOVE your music, but can't play most of it for the kids!)

I have all the usual suspects ("Sweet Home Chicago," "My Kind of Town," etc) but would like a bigger variety. Would especially like to include some hip-hop since we have such a strong hip-hop culture here, but can't use songs with cursing or excessive sex/violence/drug use. (Yes, Kanye, I'm talking to you. LOVE your music, but can't play most of it for the kids!)

I have the list from Wikipedia already. But does anyone know hip-hop that isn't listed here that has no profanity? OR, does anyone know a cd that may contain some of the really old songs (like the ones from the Columbian Exposition)?

Answer 1

Chicago is so two years ago-Fall Out Boy
is a really good song

Answer 2

HERE'S A GREAT LIST OF A BUNCH
OF SONGS ABOUT CHICAGO. THIS
SHOULD CERTAINLY HELP YOU OUT!!!
(AND IT'S ALSO EASIER TO READ
THEN THE PREVIOUS ANSWERERS)

Answer 3

Modern songs
"312" - Bohemia
"San Francisco" - Alkaline Trio
"Mercy Me" - Alkaline Trio
"Ain't it Man" - Boo & Gotti
"Back to Chicago" - Styx
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
"Baseball Dreams" - Ralph's World
"Bear Down, Chicago Bears
"Best Wishes to your Black Lung" - Less Than Jake
"Born in Chicago" - Paul Butterfield
"Chi-City" - Common
"Chicago (We Can Change The World)" - Graham Nash
"Chicago Bound" - Jimmy Rogers
"Chicago Fanphair '93" - Local H
"Chicago Is So Two Years Ago" - Fall Out Boy
"Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" - The Hold Steady
"Chicago Song" - David Sanborn
"Chicago at night" - Spoon
"Chicago" - Bis
"Chicago" - Da Brat
"Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" - Fred Fisher, popularized by Frank Sinatra
"Chicago" - Hieroglyphics
"Chicago" - Ingram Hill
"Chicago" - Sean Watkins
"Chicago" - Shawnna
"Chicago" - Sufjan Stevens
"Chicago" - The Tossers
"Chicago, Damn" - Bobbi Humphrey
"Chicago...." - Screeching Weasel
"City of Chicago" - Luka Bloom / Barry Moore
"Come On! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
"The Corner" - Common
"Daley's Gone" - Steve Goodman
"Dead End Street" - Lou Rawls
"Dear Chicago" - Ryan Adams
"A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" - Steve Goodman
"The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" - Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
"The EL" - Rhett Miller
"Far, Far Away" - Wilco
"Full Moon" - Common
"Go Cubs Go" - Steve Goodman
"Going to Chicago Blues" - The Count Basie Orchestra
"Goodbye to Guyville" - Urge Overkill
"The Great Chicago Fire"
"A Guided Tour of Chicago" - The Lawrence Arms
"Happy Summertime" - R.Kelly
"Here Come the Hawks"
"Home" - Kanye West
"In Tha Chi" - Shawnna
"In The Ghetto"- Elvis Presley
"Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" - Soul Coughing
"Jesus Just Left Chicago" - ZZ Top
"L.A., Goodbye" - The Ides of March
"Lake Shore Drive" - Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
"Lake Shore Driving" - Duran Duran
"Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox" - Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers
"The Lincoln Park Pirates" - Steve Goodman
"Little Joe from Chicago" - Nat King Cole
"My Kind of Town" - Frank Sinatra
"The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace
"North Side Story" - Street Brats
"On The South Side of Chicago" - Freddy Cole
"Prairie Song" - Billy Corgan
"Pushaman" - Bump J
"The Rebirth" - Chapter 13
"Red Leaves of October" - Michael Peter Smith
"Riverview" - Billy Corgan
"Slow Down Chicago" - Canasta
"Southside Mojo" - Jagoff
"Southwest Coast Blues" - Corky Siegel
"Stay Chi" - Juice
"Stratford-On-Guy" - Liz Phair
"Super Bowl Shuffle" - Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew, the 1985 Chicago Bears
"Sweet Home Chicago" - Robert Johnson, covered by The Blues Brothers
"Swing Life Away" - Rise Against
"Take Me Back To Chicago" - Chicago
"Take the Time" - Freddy Jones Band
"Thin Red Line" - Typical Cats
"Tonight Will Last Forever" - Mest
"Tonight, Tonight" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"Two Words" - Mos Def
"Via Chicago" - Wilco
"We Are The Immigrants"
"We Ride" - Jay-z/Memphis Bleek
"Welcome To Chicago" - Kill Hannah
"The Woman Downstairs" - Handsome Family
[edit] Old compositions
"An Afternoon In Midway Plaisance. Fantasie For Piano." - Composer Gustave Luders
"Apostrophe to Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden
"Awake! Awake!" - Composer & Lyricist: Mrs. Emily M. (Blakeslee) Boyden
"The Belle of Chicago"- Composer: John Phillip Sousa
"The Belle of Lincoln Park"- Composer & Lyricist: Geo. Maywood
"The Billiken Man" - Composer: Melville J. Gideon, Lyricist: E. Ray Goetz, Sung by Blanche Ring
"Boost Chicago" - Composer: Armin P. Bauer
"Cairo Street Waltz" - Composer: Signor Guglielmo Ricci
"Chicago" - Composer: Granville English, Lyricist: Charles G. Blanden
"C-h-i-c-a-g-o" - Composer & Lyricist: Gertrude E. Ketchum
C-h-i-c-a-g-o" - Composer: Aubrey Stauffer
"Chicago Beautiful" - Composer & Lyricist: Juanita Mabelle Rosness
"Chicago by the Inland Sea" - Composer & Lyricist: Russell Wood
"Chicago Chicago Chicago" - Composers & Lyricists: Ben Trace, Al Trace & Herbie Herbert
"Chicago Day Waltz" - Composer: G. Valisi
"The Chicago Express" - Composer: Percy Wenrich
"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
"Chicago March" - Composer: Henry S. Sawyer
"Chicago. Marine Band" - Composer: Wm. F. Peters
"Chicago, My Home Town" - Composer & Lyricist: Paul S. Hargrow
"Chicago, Prairie Gem of Illinois" - Composer & Lyricist: Laura Aborn
"Chicago Quickstep" - 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, 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
"The Chicago Tribune Centennial March" - Composer: Robert Trendler, Lyricist: Jack La Frandre
"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 Guard" - Composer & Lyricist: T. P. Brooke
"Columbus Fair (Grand March)" - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
"Come to Chicago" - Composer: Dorothy Giffey, Lyricist: James Andrichen
"Ferris Wheel Waltz" - Composer: G. Valisi, Lyricist: Harry C. Clyde
"Go Go Chicago. Wonder City Home of Mine." - Composer & Lyricist : Clitus M. Wickens
"Grand Exposition March" - Composer: Louis Falk
"Greater Chicago March" - Composer: Jacob Valentine Havener, Lyricist: Agner Clark Winkler
"Greetings. Chicago's Official Song. 1833-Chicago-1933" - Composer & Lyricist: George D. Gaw, Transcribed & Arranged by: Frank Barden.
"Hail, Chicago! Official Song of the Pageant of Progress" - 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
"I Am Proud of Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Ben Schwartzberg
"I Used To Work In Chicago. I Did But I Don't Anymore" - Composers & Lyricists: Larry Vincent & Sunny Skylar
"I'm From Chicago" - Composer: Leo Edwards, Lyricist: Blanche Merrill
"I'm Going Right Back to Chicago" - Composer: Egbert Van Alstyne, Lyricist: Harry Williams
"In Cairo Street: A Characteristic Fantasie for Piano" - Composer: Geo. Schleiffarth
"In Chicago" - Composer & Lyricist: Olive Jeane
"n 1933. (Where Will You Be)" - Composer & Lyricist: Art Kassel, Arranger: Charles Adams
"In Old Chicago" - Composers & Lyricists: Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
"It's a Way They Have in Chicago" - Composer: Gustav Luders, Lyricist: M. E. Rourke
"Let's Go Chicago! I Will" - Composer & Lyricist: Earl Cleland
"Lincoln Park. A Solo and Chorus" - Composer: T. Glass, Lyricist: Geo.W. Morse
"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
"Chicago" - Clueso

[edit] Other
"Bear Down Chicago Bears" - Composer & Lyricist: Jerry Downs
"The Chicago Cubs Song" - Composer: John Frigo, Lyricist: I.. C. Haag
"Super Bowl Shuffle" - Composers: B. Daniels, L. Barry; Lyrics: R. Meyer, M. Owens

[edit] See also
List of songs
http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/001artmusic/chgosongs/chicagosongs.html

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