Chicago will be at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center on June 20. Tickets go on sale Friday.

APPLETON, Wis. — The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center is proud to announce multi-Grammy award winning band and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago will perform Friday, June 20.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance in Thrivent Hall start at $88.37 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

Tickets may be purchased at foxcitiespac.com, ticketmaster.com, on the Fox Cities P.A.C.’s mobile app, by calling the ticket office at 920-730-3760 or going in person to 400 W. College Ave. in downtown Appleton Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Additional fees may apply. Performance schedule, prices and performers are subject to change without notice. The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center and Ticketmaster are the only authorized tickets sellers. Purchases from third party ticket brokers may not be valid.

The original three band members are Robert Lamm on keyboards and vocals, Lee Loughnane on trumpet and vocals and James Pankow on trombone. The band line-up also includes Wally Reyes, Jr. on drums, Tony Obrohta on guitar, Loren Gold on keyboards and vocals, Ray Herrmann on sax and flute, Neil Donell on vocals, Eric Baines on bass and Ramon “Ray” Yslas on percussion.

Hailed as one of the most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era, the legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, came in as the highest-charting American band in Billboard Magazine’s Top 125 Artists Of All Time. Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades.

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 and more than two hours of live music by Lamm; Terry Kath, guitar, vocals; Peter Cetera, vocals, bass; Danny Seraphine, drums; Loughnane; Pankow; and Walt Parazaider, woodwinds, vocals.

Chicago released “Chicago Greatest Christmas Hits,” a new collection combining songs from all three of its beloved Christmas albums, in 2023 via Warner Music Group/Rhino.

Chicago released their 38th studio album, “Born For This Moment,” in 2022, which included the hit single “If This is Goodbye.”

Featuring the signature sounds Chicago fans have come to love, “Born For This Moment,” captures the true heart of this legendary band. Over the entire course of 14 new songs, the album encapsulates the unique blend of award-winning and personal songwriting, multilayered harmonic vocalizations and world-class arrangements that have been electrifying audiences across the globe for decades.

In fall of 2022, Gravitas Ventures released Chicago’s documentary “The Last Band on Stage” directed by Peter Curtis Pardini and narrated by the band’s longtime friend, actor Joe Mantegna. On March 14, 2020, Chicago is the last band playing in the U.S. as COVID-19 lockdowns begin and “The Last Band on Stage” tells the story of how the 57-year-old band survived a pandemic that stopped the world in its tracks.

Chicago received The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys. The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates performers who have made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording. A special award ceremony and tribute concert celebrating the honorees took place in 2020.

Chicago was inducted into the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That was their first nomination. They’d been eligible since 1994.

Chicago’s first album, “Chicago Transit Authority,” was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 2014. Chicago managed to fuse pop, rock and jazz together perfectly in this double album.

Lamm and Pankow have become inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017. These legendary songwriters wrote mega-hits such as, “25 or 6 to 4,” “Saturday In The Park,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “Make Me Smile” and many others. The International Trombone Association presented its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Pankow.

Chicago’s lifetime achievements include two Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, Founding Artists of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Chicago street dedicated in their honor and keys to and proclamations from an impressive list of U.S. cities.

Record sales top the 100 million mark and include 21 Top 10 singles, five consecutive number one albums, 11 number-one singles and five gold singles. An incredible 25 of their 38 albums have been certified platinum and the band has a total of 48 gold and platinum awards.