HISTORY Chicago: City of the Big Shoulders*

 




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.
For several decades, Chicago was the fastest growing city in the world. Chicago’s seemingly unstoppable growth lu…

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