Chicago’s debut album “Chicago Transit Authority” was inducted into The National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2025.
Legendary Grammy Award-winning band and 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago will return to The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas in 2026 for the ninth year in a row for a nine-show limited engagement.
Celebrated as the longest-running residency artist in the venue’s history on the Las Vegas Strip, with more than 60 shows, Chicago will perform Feb. 13-15, 18, 20-21, 25 and 27-28, with all performances scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
Hailed as one of the “most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era,” Chicago, the band with horns, came in as the highest-charting U.S. band in Billboard’s Top 125 Artists of All Time. Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades.
Chicago’s debut album “Chicago Transit Authority” was inducted into The National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2025. The Registry archives audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.
In 2024, Chicago released “Chicago at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. (9/16/1971),” a 26-track live collection recorded at the historic venue. The show covers all three studio albums from their 1969 debut to 1971.
Additionally, it features more than two hours of live music by Robert Lamm (keyboard, vocals), Terry Kath (guitar, vocals), Peter Cetera (vocals, bass), Danny Seraphine (drums), Lee Loughnane (trumpet, vocals), James Pankow (trombone) and Walt Parazaider (woodwinds, vocals).
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Chicago IX: Chicago’s Greatest Hits,” the band released “Chicago IX: Greatest Hits Expanded,” in August.
Citi is the official card of Chicago’s Las Vegas engagement at The Venetian. Citi cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Monday, Oct. 13, at 10 a.m. PT until Thursday, Oct. 16, at 10 p.m. PT through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete pre-sale details, visit CitiEntertainment.com.
Additional pre-sales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale beginning Friday, Oct. 17, at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets start at $49.95, plus applicable fees, and will be available at Ticketmaster.com, VenetianLasVegas.com, any box office at The Venetian and by calling (702) 414-9000 and (866) 641-7469.
