Fox Cities P.A.C. Adds Chicago to 2016 Lineup

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center is excited to announce that Frank Productions and True Endeavors will present Chicago on Saturday, August 13 at 8 p.m.

Tickets for Chicago start at $69.50 and go on sale Friday, April 8 at 10 a.m. Tickets can be purchased at the Fox Cities P.A.C. ticket office in person, by calling the ticket office (920) 730-3760 or Ticketmaster (800) 982-2787 or online.

Hailed as one of the "most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era" by former President Bill Clinton, the legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, came in at #9, the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine's recent Hot 200 All-Time Top Artists. Chicago is also the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six decades.

Chicago will be inducted into the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This was their first nomination. They've been eligible since 1994. A long time coming.

Chicago's album, Chicago Transit Authority, was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2014, and the band performed on the Grammy stage for the first time that year.

The band's new documentary film, "Now More Than Ever: The History Of Chicago," premiered at the Sedona International Film Festival in February, 2016, and won the Film Festival's Best of Fest Audience Choice Award. The band opened the festival with back-to-back sold-out performances.

Chicago's newest record of new studio tracks, "NOW" CHICAGO xxVI, was released on Frontiers Records in 2014. It includes eleven brand new songs, recorded on the road. Chicago has built a new recording system that is flexible, portable, powerful and musical. This new "recording rig" travels with the band. They have even created an online collaboration portal that allows even more performances to be worked on around the clock from remote locations. The CD package is a six-panel digipack with a beautiful 16-page full color lyric booklet.

Chicago's lifetime achievements include a Grammy Award, multiple American Music Awards, 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 US cities. Record sales top the 100,000,000 mark, and include 21 Top 10 singles, 5 consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles and 5 Gold singles. An incredible 25 of their 36 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 47 gold and platinum awards.

Chicago has toured every year since the beginning - 2016 will mark the band's 49th year of touring - they've never missed a year. The line-up includes original band members Robert Lamm on keyboards, vocals, Lee Loughnane on trumpet and vocals, James Pankow on trombone and Walt Parazaider on woodwinds, as well as Jason Scheff on bass, vocals, Tris Imboden on drums, Keith Howland on guitar and vocals, Lou Pardini on keyboards, vocals and Walfredo Reyes, Jr. on percussion.

For five years, Chicago raised over a quarter of a million dollars to fight breast cancer for the American Cancer Society by having a winning bidder come on stage and sing "If You Leave Me Now" in concert. Chicago generously support other charitable causes, donating a portion of ticket sales to the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, which seeks a cure for a fatal children's disease, Niemann-Pick Type C, and Hannah & Friends, an organization that serves children and adults with special needs. Hannah & Friends is the personal mission of Maura Weis and her husband, Charlie Weis, the current coach at the University of Kansas.

From the signature sound of the Chicago horns, their iconic vocalists, and a few dozen of ever-classic Songs, this band's concerts are celebrations.

Chicago continue to be true ambassadors for their beloved hometown, carrying the city's name with pride and dignity around the world.