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"City of Big Shoulders" is a nickname coined by Carl Sandburg in his 1914 poem "Chicago," which describes the city as "stormy, husky, [and] brawling." It is the last of several nicknames in the poem; the others hint at the city's major industrial activities, for example, the meat-packing industry and railroad industry. [11]
City in a Garden (literal translation of city motto, Urbs in horto) [17] The City of the Big Shoulders [18] (from Chicago, a Carl Sandburg poem) The City That Works (by Mayor Daley, for example [19]) Mud City [20] The Second City [18] The White City (referencing the World's Columbian Exposition) [citation needed] The Windy City [18
"Chicago" is a poem by Carl Sandburg about the city of Chicago that became his adopted home. It first appeared in Poetry , March 1914, the first of nine poems collectively titled "Chicago Poems". It was republished in 1916 in Sandburg's first mainstream collection of poems, also titled Chicago Poems .
One of the first non-Native people to set foot here, in what would eventually become Chicago, was a French explorer named Robert Cavalier, sieur de la Salle, and he had this to say, “The typical ...
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
The first big penalty of the game went in Kansas City’s favor. The Eagles were going for it on fourth-and-2 from midfield and appeared to convert a 30-yard completion.
In Issue 6 of the British games magazine Games International, Brian Walker stated that "City fulfils much of the criteria required for a successful game; the luck element is a long way removed from the roll a dice and hope for the best school; the player interaction is strong and there is plenty of opportunity both for planning and decisions of an altogether more vindictive nature."
All my clothes looked too big, with that P. Diddy Bad Boy big ass Sean John shirt.” Damon Williams during The Bad Boys of Comedy - July 23, 2004 at Brooklyn Academy Of Music in New York City ...