A Tribute to the Gritty Chicago
By The ArchivesA Tribute to the Gritty Chicago
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Even as Chicago embraces its future as a global city, it still has a certain gritty quality, one in which many natives and longtime residents take pride. Local poet Marc Smith pays tribute to our hard-boiled past with his reading of the Carl Sandburg poem, “Chicago.”Read Sandburg’s “Chicago.”