$3.82B
Music Industry Contribution to state GDP
Stephen Siwek/Economists Inc.57,523
Jobs Supported
Stephen Siwek/Economists Inc.4,553
Music Businesses
Stephen Siwek/Economists Inc.A2IM/RIAA
4,664
Royalty Recipients
SoundExchange43,285
Songwriters
ASCAP/BMIEveryone knows about the Chicago blues, be it through luminaries like Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters,
or legendary venues like Kingston Mines and The House of Blues. But Illinois's contributions to music go much further. Jazz icon Miles Davis was from Illinois, as are folk greats John Prine and Alison Krauss. Sam Cooke of Sam & Dave was raised in Chicago, along with Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, and Mavis Staples. Illinois has a vibrant and diverse musical heritage, which continues to this day, as it hosts a premier multi-day rock festival, Lollapalooza, and the Chicago House Music Festival, celebrating a genre of electronic music that it popularized in the early 1980s. As Frank Sinatra famously sang, "On State Street that great street I just want to say, They do things that they don't do on Broadway."

Some
Notable
Musicians
- Billy Corgan
- Brett Eldredge
- Chance the Rapper
- Cheap Trick
- Chicago
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Fall Out Boy
- Herbie Hancock
- Kanye West
- Lupe Fiasco
- Mavis Staples
- Miles Davis
- Minnie Riperton
- R.E.O Speedwagon
- Sam Cooke
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Styx
- Survivor