The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago by adding electricity, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic string/harmonica Delta blues.
- Big Maceo Merriweather
- Big Walter Horton
- Billy Boy Arnold
- Billy Branch
- Buddy Guy
- Champion Jack Dupree
- Elmore James
- Hound Dog Taylor
- Howlin' Wolf
- J.B. Hutto
- J.B. Lenoir
- Jimmy Cotton
- Jimmy Dawkins
- Jimmy Rogers
- John Brim
- John Primer
- Johnny Shines
- Little Walter
- Luther Allison
- Magic Sam
- Mighty Joe Young
- Muddy Waters
- Otis Rush
- Otis Spann
- Paul Butterfield
- Robert Lockwood Jr
- Robert Nighthawk
- Snooky Prior
- Sonny Boy Williamson
- Willie Dixon
