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Chicago was a gritty industrial town in the late 1800's. The broad shoulders moniker comes from the Carl Sandburg poem penned in 1916.

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Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:

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