1. Biscuits and Hyacinths Roald Tweet 2:47

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Most of us first learn about Chicago from a poem in tenth grade. “Hog Butcher for the World,” the poem shouts, “Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads…Stormy, husky, brawling…”

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