The Night Chicago Died the U.S. at the height of its popularity because of contractual issues. "The Night Chicago Died" is about a shoot-out between the Chicago Police and gangsters tied to Al Capone. It was inspired by the real-life Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, although that involved Capone's men killing seven of Bugs Moran's gang members and had nothing to do with the police. The song's events supposedly take place "on the East Side of Chicago". Chicago has three commonly referred-to regions: the North Side, the West Side and the South Side. There is no East Side, as Lake Michigan is immediately east of
Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert is a live album by the American band Chicago, their twenty-sixth album overall, released in 1999. Their second live album to be released in the US, it was Chicago's first of the sort since 1971's "Chicago at Carnegie Hall" and 1972's "Live in Japan", though the band had released commercial VHS tapes of two concerts in the early 1990s. Featuring the band's latter day line-up, "Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert" is composed mostly of their wealth of hits, with three brand new studio recordings ending the album, one of which,