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| artist = [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]
| cover = CTA album.jpg
| caption = Back cover of LP
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| released = {{Start date|1969|04|28}}
| recorded = January 27–30, 1969
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| studio = [[CBS 30th Street Studio|CBS 30th Street]],
| genre = {{hlist|[[Jazz fusion#Jazz rock|Jazz rock]]|[[progressive rock]]<ref name="Hoffmann2004">{{cite book |author=Frank Hoffmann |title=Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FOSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA374 |date=12 November 2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-94950-1 |pages=374– }}</ref>|[[blues rock]]}}
| length = 76:32
| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia
| producer = [[James William Guercio]]
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| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r3843/review}}</ref>
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==History==
Chicago was formed in early 1967, first as
Chicago Transit Authority signed to [[Columbia Records]] late in 1968 and recorded their first album in late January 1969 at CBS studios on 52nd Street in New York City.<ref name="Seraphine 2011 86">{{cite book |title=Street Player: My Chicago Story |last=Seraphine |first=Danny |publisher=John Wiley & Sons Inc. |year=2011 |isbn=9780470416839 |page=86}}</ref> While Guercio had recently produced [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]]' [[Blood, Sweat & Tears (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)|second album]] (which proved to be a huge smash), he did so to raise capital for his band, and to secure the contract with Columbia (which was reluctant at first to have two jazz-rock bands since Blood, Sweat & Tears was already on their roster).<ref>{{cite book |title=Street Player: My Chicago Story |last=Seraphine |first=Danny |publisher=John Wiley & Sons Inc. |year=2011 |isbn=9780470416839 |page=85}}</ref><ref name=Ruhlmannp2>{{cite AV media notes |title=Chicago Group Portrait (Box Set) |year=1991 |url=http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Chicago_Box_Set_-_Page_2.html |page=2 |access-date=January 18, 2019 |first=William James |last=Ruhlmann |format=CD booklet archived online |publisher=Columbia Records |location= New York City |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20171112155002/http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Chicago_Box_Set_-_Page_4.html |archive-date=November 12, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Chicago Story">{{cite web |url=https://chicagotheband.com/a-chicago-story/ |title=A Chicago Story – Chicago |website=Chicagotheband.com |language=en-US |access-date=January 17, 2019 |archive-date=October 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030061450/https://chicagotheband.com/a-chicago-story/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By the end of the ''Chicago Transit Authority'' sessions, the band had decided they wanted it to be a [[double album]]. Skeptical, as the band had no track record, Columbia agreed to the concept only if the group would take a royalty cut.<ref name=Ruhlmannp2 /><ref name="Chicago Story" />
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==Musical style, writing, composition==
Keyboardist [[Robert Lamm]], guitarist [[Terry Kath]] and bassist [[Peter Cetera]] shared lead vocals, while [[James Pankow]], [[Lee Loughnane]] and [[Walter Parazaider]] handled all brass and woodwinds ([[trombone]], [[trumpet]] and [[saxophone]], [[clarinet]] and [[flute]] respectively) and [[Danny Seraphine]] played drums. (Parazaider is pictured in the album package playing flute, but doesn't actually play it on the album.) Band members added percussion during sections of a song when they weren't playing their main instrument. For example, on "I'm a Man", Pankow was on cowbell, Parazaider on tambourine, and Loughnane on claves.<ref name="Seraphine 2011 86"/> Lamm, Kath and Pankow were the band's main composers at this time. According to the band's producer, James William Guercio, [[Jimi Hendrix]] was an avowed fan of Kath's playing.<ref name=Ruhlmannp8>{{cite AV media notes |title=Chicago Group Portrait (Box Set) |year=1991 |url=http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Chicago_Box_Set_-_Page_8.html |page=8 |access-date=January 18, 2019 |first=William James |last=Ruhlmann |format=CD booklet archived online |publisher=Columbia Records |location=New York City |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20171112155002/http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Chicago_Box_Set_-_Page_4.html |archive-date=November 12, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Chicago Story" /> According to the album's original liner notes, the solo performance of Kath on "Free Form Guitar" was created without the use of any pedals.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Chicago_Transit.html|title=Chicago Transit|website=aln2.albumlinernotes|access-date=January 19, 2019|archive-date=January 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119230810/http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Chicago_Transit.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In a nod to Hendrix's guitar expressionism (Hendrix most notably used wah and fuzz pedals),{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} Kath instead plugged directly into his studio amplifier and improvised the entire track in one take for the purpose of pure tone.<ref name=":1" />
The album is one of two not to have any songwriting contributions from Cetera during his tenure in the band, the other being ''[[Chicago V]]''. He started writing songs with the second album, ''[[Chicago (album)|Chicago]]''.<ref name=Ruhlmannp4>{{cite AV media notes|title= Chicago Group Portrait (Box Set)|year= 1991|url= http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Chicago_Box_Set_-_Page_4.html|page= 4|access-date= January 17, 2019|first= William James|last= Ruhlmann|format= CD booklet archived online|publisher= Columbia Records|location= New York City, NY|url-status= live|archive-url= http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20171112155002/http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Chicago_Box_Set_-_Page_4.html|archive-date= November 12, 2017|df= mdy-all}}</ref>
== Recording
Because of dealings between the recording company and the group's producer, James William Guercio, the group's studio time was limited to only five days of basic tracking and five days of overdubbing by the recording company.<ref name=Ruhlmannp2 /><ref name="Chicago Story" /> According to Guercio, the album was "done 8-track."<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Guercio, James William (interviewee), Sinclair, Michelle Kath (director) |date=2016 |title=The Terry Kath Experience |type=documentary film |time=18:36}}</ref>
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== Personnel ==
* [[Peter Cetera]] – bass, lead and backing vocals
* [[Terry Kath]] – guitars, lead and backing vocals
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* [[Danny Seraphine]] – drums, percussion
=== Production ===
* [[James William Guercio]] – producer, original liner notes
* [[Fred Catero]] – engineer
* Nick Fasciano – artwork
* Lee Loughnane – A&R, project supervisor
* David McLees – A&R, project supervisor
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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1969|region=Canada|award=Platinum|certyear=1977|artist=Chicago|title=Transit Authority|access-date=June 21, 2023}}
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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1969|region=United States|award=Platinum|number=2|certyear=1986|artist=Chicago|title=Chicago Transit Authority|access-date=June 21, 2023}}
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==Notes==
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