A City by Any Other Name
By Leo E. Martin
"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."
-Carl Sandburg, Chicago, 1916
Whether referred to as the "city of the big shoulders," the Windy City, or Chi-town, Chicagoland is a city of a thousand nicknames. Perhaps the most controversial of these numerous cognomens is "the second city," a disparaging label given to the city by A. J. Liebling in an article he penned for the New Yorker in 1952. Read on... http://www.johnnyjet.com/folder/archive/Leo-Martin-Chicago-2010.html
