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Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert
Live album by Chicago
Released	12 October 1999
Recorded	July 1999
Genre	Adult Contemporary
Length	72:02
Label	Chicago Records
Producer(s)	Live tracks: n/a Studio tracks: Roy Bittan and Mervin Warren
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Chicago chronology
Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album (1998) What's It Gonna Be, Santa? (2003)	Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert (1999)	The Very Best of: Only the Beginning (2002)

Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert is an album by American rock band Chicago and was 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. (In 1974, the band issued the far superior Chicago Live In Japan, a 2-record set from their June, 1972, appearance at the Osaka Festival Hall that included many of the better tracks featured on ...Carnegie Hall as well as Japanese-language versions of their hits "Lowdown" and "Questions 67 & 68".)

Featuring the band's latter day line-up, Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert is comprised mostly of their wealth of hits, with three brand new studio recordings ending the album, one of which, Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", features Michael McDonald on lead vocals.

Released on their own Chicago Records imprint, Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert became the first new Chicago album to fail to chart upon its release (Take Me Back to Chicago, a compilation of hits and album tracks having failed to chart upon its release some fourteen years earlier) and, consequently, went out of print a few years later.

1. "The Ballet" (James Pankow) – 13:29
   • Make Me Smile
   • So Much To Say, So Much To Give
   • Anxiety's Moment
   • West Virginia Fantasies
   • Colour My World
   • To Be Free
   • Now More Than Ever
2. "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (James Pankow) – 4:40
3. "Mongonucleosis" (James Pankow) – 3:39
4. "Hard Habit To Break" (Steve Kipner/Jon Parker) – 5:16
5. "Call On Me" (Lee Loughnane) – 4:33
6. "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (Peter Cetera/James Pankow) – 4:24
7. "Just You 'N' Me" (James Pankow) – 6:18
8. "Beginnings" (Robert Lamm) – 5:51
9. "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" (Peter Cetera/David Foster/Robert Lamm) – 5:38
10. "25 or 6 to 4" (Robert Lamm) – 5:51
11. "Back to You" (Robert Lamm/Keith Howland) – 3:41
12. "If I Should Ever Lose You" (Burt Bacharach) – 4:30
13. "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" (Gary Jackson/Raynard Miner/Carl Smith) – 4:11
    • Features Michael McDonald on lead vocal
    • The above three tracks are new studio recordings

Chicago XXVI:Live in Concert (Chicago 3026) did not chart in the US or UK.

• Bill Champlin - pianos, keyboards, guitars
• Keith Howland - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Tris Imboden - drums, percussion
• Robert Lamm - pianos, keyboards, percussion, vocals, background vocals
• Lee Loughnane - trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet, guitar, percussion, background vocals
• James Pankow - trombone, percussion, background vocals
• Walter Parazaider - saxophones, flute, clarinet
• Jason Scheff - electric bass, vocals, background vocals