Chicago (album)

Chicago
Studio album by Chicago
Released	January 26, 1970[1]
Recorded	August 1969
Studio	CBS 30th Street, New York City CBS, Hollywood
Genre	Rock jazz fusion progressive rock
Length	66:08
Label	Columbia
Producer	James William Guercio
Chicago chronology
Chicago Transit Authority (1969) Chicago (1970) Chicago III (1971)
Singles from Chicago
"Make Me Smile/Colour My World" Released: March 1970 "25 or 6 to 4" Released: June 1970

Chicago (retroactively known as Chicago II) is the second studio album by the American rock band Chicago, released on January 26, 1970, by Columbia Records. Like their debut album, Chicago Transit Authority, it is a double album. It was their first album released under the name Chicago—the band's prior name, Chicago Transit Authority, was changed due to a threatened lawsuit from the actual mass-transit operator bearing the same name—and the first to use the now ubiquitous cursive Chicago logo on the cover.

Chicago was commercially successful. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in April of the same year of its release, and certified platinum in 1991. It reached No. 4 on the album charts in the United States and No. 6 on the album charts in the UK, and produced three top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The album received three Grammy Award nominations: for Album of the Year, Contemporary Vocal Group, and Best Album Cover. It was voted best album of 1970 by readers of Cash Box magazine, and the 1971 best small-combo LP by readers of Playboy magazine.