A view of the Chicago skyline (Wikimedia CC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
As we made our approach to the runway at O\u2019Hare, I found myself thinking of Carl Sandburg\u2019s famous 1914 poem:<\/p>\n
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Chicago<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Hog Butcher for the World,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Player with Railroads and the Nation\u2019s Freight Handler;<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stormy, husky, brawling,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0City of the Big Shoulders:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.<\/span><\/div>\nAnd they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.<\/span><\/div>\nAnd they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.<\/span><\/div>\nAnd having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:<\/span><\/div>\nCome and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.<\/span><\/div>\nFlinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;<\/span><\/div>\nFierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bareheaded,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shoveling,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wrecking,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Planning,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Building, breaking, rebuilding,<\/span><\/div>\nUnder the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,<\/span><\/div>\nUnder the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,<\/span><\/div>\nLaughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,<\/span><\/div>\nBragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Laughing!<\/span><\/div>\nLaughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sandburg is said to have described the poem as \u201ca chant of defiance by Chicago . . . \u00a0its defiance of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome. The poem sort of says \u2018Maybe we ain\u2019t got culture, but we\u2019re eatin\u2019 regular.'\u201d<\/div>\n
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Of course, what was perhaps true of Chicago a century ago can no longer really be said of the Chicago of today \u2014 the city\u00a0of the renowned University of Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet, the Chicago Art Institute, the Chicago Symphony, and a host of other major cultural institutions, the location of major art\u00a0collections, the canvas\u00a0on which\u00a0my favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, created many\u00a0of his very significant works.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Chicago, Illinois<\/p>\n
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