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The Exchange, Best of the South Side edition

arl Sandburg (1878–1967) once described his perhaps most-famous, most-anthologized poem as “a chant of defiance by Chicago … its defiance of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome. The poem sort of says ‘maybe we ain’t got culture, but we’re eatin’ regular.’”  Sandburg was born in Galesburg, IL, and moved to Chicago in […]

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