Top Ten Chicago Musicians That You Can Name Midway Airport After
When I came up with this idea for renaming Midway Airport for a musician, I thought there must be other candidates besides Muddy Waters. I decided to Google, Chicago Musicians and see what came up. Wikipedia has a page that lists over 1000 Chicago musicians. I started there and whittled it down to ten.
There's some amazing talent that didn't crack the Top 10. It includes: Lou Rawls, Minnie Ripperton, Dinah Washington, Koko Taylor, John Prine, Herbie Hancock, Gene Krupa, Howlin' Wolf, Phil Upchurch, Benny Goodman and Corky Siegel. In earlier pieces I mentioned why Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield wouldn't be on the list.
You could make a pretty good list out of the above names. Here's mine. I'm always open to comments aand suggestions, so bring em on