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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 ]
In January 2020, The Big Shoulders Fund spent $47.5 million and the archdiocese provided $44.9 million to 30 Catholic schools based mainly on Chicago's western and southern sides. [ 4 ] In June 2020, on Father's Day afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic , volunteers delivered 10,000 meals through 10 separate locations across Northwest Indiana.
Charles W. "Stormy" Bidwill Jr. (born June 9, 1928) is an American businessman who was the president of the now defunct Sportsman’s Park horse track in Cicero, Illinois from 1967 to 1995 and co-owner of the National Football League's Chicago and St. Louis Cardinals franchise with his younger brother, Bill Bidwill, from 1962 to 1972.
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Hightower was co-founded in 2007 by Elliot Weissbluth, Larry Koehler, Daniel Lidawer and Drew Kornreich. The firm was founded for broker-dealer advisors who wanted to move to an independent firm that still received the support of a big firm but without the negative press and conflicts of interest of needing to recommend products that their employer required them to sell.
Then as now, the city of Chicago was a hub of commodities trading and a key financial center for agricultural markets. The city was also a center of the meat-packing industry and an important railroad hub; these industries are also mentioned in the poem. One of Chicago's many nicknames, "City of the Big Shoulders," is taken from the poem's ...
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Chicago also has a sizable non-Christian population. Non-Christian groups include Irreligious (22%), Judaism (3%), Islam (2%), Buddhism (1%) and Hinduism (1%). [196] Chicago is the headquarters of several religious denominations, including the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is the seat of several ...