The touring lineup of Chicago is pictured. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band will perform in Salamanca in November.

Chicago, owners of 21 top 10 singles during a career that began in 1969, will perform in November at the Seneca Allegany Casino in Salamanca.

The band will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, with tickets on sale Friday. This year marks Chicago’s 59th consecutive year of touring.

The band’s catalog of hits includes “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?”, “Beginnings”, “25 or 6 to 4”, “Saturday in the Park”, “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day”, and “If You Leave Me Now” and others among 21 Top 10 singles. Chicago has sold more than 100 million records, including five consecutive No. 1 albums and 25 certified platinum albums.

Chicago was the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades. Overall, the band has won two Grammy Awards and two American Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.

Neil Donell, one of the band’s vocalists, recently left the band – a decision Donell said on Facebook was his choice. From 2018-2026, he was the lead tenor vocalist for the classic rock band Chicago, succeeding Peter Cetera, Jason Scheff and Jeff Coffey.

While Chicago has a lengthy history the touring version of the band isn’t the version of Chicago that began touring 59 years ago. Growing out of several bands from the Chicago area in the late 1960s, the original line-up consisted of Peter Cetera on bass, Terry Kath on guitar, Robert Lamm on keyboards, Lee Loughnane on trumpet, James Pankow on trombone, Walter Parazaider on woodwinds, and Danny Seraphine on drums. Cetera, Kath, and Lamm shared lead vocal duties. The group initially called themselves the Big Thing, then changed to the Chicago Transit Authority in 1968, and finally shortened the name to Chicago in 1969.

Laudir de Oliveira joined the band as a percussionist and second drummer in 1974. Kath died in 1978 and was replaced by several guitarists before Bill Champlin joined Chicago in 1981 to provide vocals, play keyboards and rhythm guitar. Cetera left the band in 1985 and was replaced by Jason Scheff. Seraphine left in 1990 and was replaced by Tris Imboden. The band’s lineup has changed several times since 2009, though Lamm, Loughnane, and Pankow remained constant members until 2025. Parazaider officially retired in 2017 before announcing in 2021 he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Lamm and Pankow went on hiatus from touring amidst health problems in 2025 before permanently retiring from the road in 2026.

In an essay by Rob Bowman on the eve of Chicago’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Parazaider discussed the band’s appeal Parazaider summed up the band’s appeal through more than five decades of touring that spanned so many different lineups and musical styles.

“There were so many diverse personalities in this group that sometimes I had to wonder why this didn’t blow up after about a year’s worth of success. But we loved music so much. Peter wrote country tunes on the third album. . . . Jimmy Pankow was a stone-cold jazzer who loved the Beatles. Lee Loughnane loved playing big-band jazz, but

loved rock & roll. The same thing with myself. And then you had people who loved the Jimi Hendrix stuff, like Terry, or just rock and roll stuff, like Danny, and if you think about it, there is everything from blues, classical, the big-band sound. It became a meld into the band where any kind of music, as long as it was played well, was valid.”