And as we count down to getting the band back together our update playlist Rainy Days and Songdays – Chicago Singday City.
Now we’re reliably informed by no less a figure than Frank Sinatra.
That it would never let you down… and Chicago was his kind of town after all.
And while we will celebrate The Second City all through next week in the US at the Travel Fair and after.
Sweet home Chicago
We will also mark its edgy side too.
Which The Blues Brothers immortalised in their cat-and-mouse race.
With the police, a Country band, Neo-Nazis and Carrie Fisher… all on a mission from God.
And, of course, celebrate in our annual Broadway lunch, Roxie Hart, her slick lawyer Billy Flynn and all that jazz.
Mob handed
Elvis recognised Chicago’s gritty side and its resilience.
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin’ a poor little baby child is born. In the ghetto.
While I’ll be glad to take Frank’s advice again that if I do go down to South Chicago.
And I bump into Bad, Bad Leroy Brown to call him Sir.
No peon to Chicago can ignore the most notorious of gangsters Al Capone.
And brother what a night it really was and brother what a fight it really was.
When the cops and The Mob duked it out The Night Chicago Died.
My Kinda Town
But, of course, we all know that Chicago is alive and bustling which is why…
It’s Tuggin’ my sleeve, Chicago is
The Wrigley Building, Chicago is
The Union Stockyard, Chicago is.
And one more time… My Kind of Town.
And it’s already on my Rainy Days and Songdays – Chicago Singday City playlist.
