Chicago (band)/YMMV

• Accidental Innuendo: Before they even became the Chicago Transit Authority, they went by the name "the Big Thing", which apparently caused some controversy in the Chicago club circuit.
• Broken Base: Their stuff post-Kath era divides the fanbase.
• Ear Worm
• Epic Riff: "25 or 6 to 4".
• Face of the Band: Averted for a while, then in The Eighties, it was Peter Cetera. Who then left halfway through the decade.
• Replacement Scrappy: Kath replacement Donnie Dacus lasted for only two albums(Hot Streets and Chicago XIII), and was later acknowledged as "a mistake".
  • Unfortunately, this goes for any lead vocalist who's name isn't Terry Kath.
• Too Dumb to Live: Terry Kath, who forgot the first rule of guns: Always assume it's loaded.
  • Justified, he had enough depression issues to not really care.