Sandburg, Carl - Chicago

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet. After a voluntary service in the Spanish-American War in 1898, Sandburg went to College and started working as a journalist in 1902. He published several works, one of the most important is his biography about Abraham Lincoln.
The poem “Chicago” is a poem about the city in which Sandburg lived from 1912 onwards. It was first published in the poetry collection Chicago, Sandburg´s first published collection of poems, in 1916.
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