Ill-formatted and Sprawling Timeline of Chicago Bands

Key - Guercio, Traut, Don't Have	1965	1966	1967	1968
Buckinghams.html	(band formed)	(singles)	Kind of Drag Time and Changes	Portraits In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow
New Colony Six		Breakthrough	Colonization	Revelations
The Cryan' Shames		Sugar and Spice	A Scratch in the Sky	Synthesis
The American Breed		(band forms)	American Breed	American Breed II Pumpkin Powder Scarlet and Green Lonely Side of the City
The Shadows of Knight	(formed 1964)	Gloria Back Door Men	(singles, band breaks up) (McGeorge to H.P. Lovecraft, Wolinski to Bangor Flying Circus)
H. P. Lovecraft/ Lovecraft			H. P. Lovecraft I	H. P. Lovecraft II
Aorta		(The Exceptions release A Rock & Roll Mass EP)	(The Exceptions splinter - Cetera to Chicago, Grebb to the Buckinghams and David to Illinois Speed Press eventually)	(single)
Chicago			(band forms)	(moves to LA)
Illinois Speed Press				(band formed)
Others			The Mauds - Hold On	The Troll - Animated Music

Key - Guercio, Traut, Don't Have	1969	1970	1971	1972
The Buckinghams	(singles)	(band dissolves) (Tufano & Giammarese Band formed) (Grebb joins Lovecraft)
New Colony Six	Attacking a Straw Man	(couple of singles)	(couple of singles)	(a single)
The Cryan' Shames	(couple of singles)	(band dissolves)
The American Breed	(singles)	(eventually becomes Rufus)
The Shadows of Knight	Shadows of Knight
H. P. Lovecraft / Lovecraft	(band breaks up) (Tezga forms Bangor Flying Circus)	(new Lovecraft forms) Lovecraft: Valley of the Moon		(another Lovecraft album released in 1975)
Bangor Flying Circus / Madura	Bangor Flying Circus (Tezga forms Lovecraft)	Madura		(Madura II released in 1973)
Aorta	Aorta (Herman joins NC6)	Aorta 2 (Donlinger and Been form Lovecraft)
Chicago (Transit Authority)	Chicago Transit Authority	Chicago II	Chicago III At Carnegie Hall	Chicago V (Live in Japan recorded)
Illinois Speed Press	Illinois Speed Press	Duet	(band dissolves)
The Flock	The Flock		Dinosaur Swamps	(Final album released in 1975)
Others	The Coven - Witchcraft - Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls	Mason Proffit - Wanted	Mason Proffit - Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream The Siegel-Schwall Band Coven The Mob	Styx Sigel-Schwall Band - Sleepy Hollow Wilderness Road