Hog Butcher for the World,Tool Maker. Stacker of Wheat,Player with Railroads,and the Nation’s Freight Handler;Stormy, husky, brawling,City of the Big Shoulders.
Chicago, by Carl Sandburg, 1914
Carl Sandburg, Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was the son of Swedish immigrants.
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