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<![CDATA[CHARLES PEARSON - CHICAGO]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:18:49 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[Chicago, "A Girl Like You . . .]]>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 01:37:53 GMThttps://www.charles-pearson.com/chicago/chicago-a-girl-like-you

You're so good
When we make love, it's understood
It's more than a touch or a word we say
Only in dreams could it be this way
When you love someone
Yeah, really love someone
Now, I know it's right
From the moment I wake up 'til deep in the night
There's nowhere on earth that I'd rather be
Than holding you, tenderly

]]><![CDATA[Chicagoland: Highland Park]]>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 19:52:35 GMThttps://www.charles-pearson.com/chicago/chicagoland-highland-park

Chicago Suburbs: Highland Park, IL

If you leave me now
You'll take away the biggest part of me
Ooh-ooh, no, baby please don't go

]]><![CDATA[Chicago, "Christmas Time Is Here]]>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 03:58:48 GMThttps://www.charles-pearson.com/chicago/chicago-christmas-time-is-here

Union Station

Chicago

"Christmas time is here
Happiness and cheer
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of the year
-Vince Guaraldi, Christmas Time Is Here

Art of the Neighborhood Mural, Willis Tower

Chicago River

Canal Street Union Station

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Tufano's, Little Italy Chicago

"Don't like his baggy jeans
but I might like what's underneath them
-Estelle, AMERICAN BOY

Chicago Union Station

Chicago Opera House, North Wacker Street

Dinner with Zepher Gang, Tufano's Little Italy Chicago

]]><![CDATA[Chicago, "Too Much Time On My Hands]]>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:22:46 GMThttps://www.charles-pearson.com/chicago/chicago-too-much-time-on-my-hands

Chicago Railroad Yards

Chicago's Styx Band
"I've given up hope for the afternoon soaps
And a bottle of cold brew
Is it any wonder I'm not crazy
Is it any wonder I'm sane at all
-Styx, Too Much Time On My Hands

Near West Side
C h i c a g o

Union Station

First Third Center

The Loop

Union Station, South Canal Street

]]><![CDATA[Near north side]]>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:15:48 GMThttps://www.charles-pearson.com/chicago/near-north-side505 North Lake shore drive

Lake Point Tower

Lake Point Tower overlooking Lake Michigan and Navy Pier.

East Lake Shore Drive with view of the top of Supertall John Hancock Skyscraper on North Michigan Avenue

Chicago Skyscrapers

]]><![CDATA[O'HARE]]>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 22:12:34 GMThttps://www.charles-pearson.com/chicago/ohare

TIDBITS

Since the site was chosen for Chicago's new airport in 1945, O'Hare has quickly grown into one of the busiest and most well-known airports in the world. Yep! We love Chicago by plane or train Chicago rocks . . .

]]><![CDATA[O'Hare Chicago]]>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:04:09 GMThttps://www.charles-pearson.com/chicago/ohare-chicagoChicago population:

City 2.75 Million
Metro 9.6 Million

O'Hare International Airport, second busiest airport in the world.

Monroe Street

O'Hare International Airport

Super Tall Skyscrapers

Lake Michigan

]]><![CDATA[city of big shoulders]]>Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:22:27 GMThttps://www.charles-pearson.com/chicago/city-of-big-shouldersChicago
BY CARL SANDBURG
Hog Butcher for the World,
   Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
   Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
   Stormy, husky, brawling,
   City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.

And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.

And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.

And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
   Bareheaded,
   Shoveling,
   Wrecking,
   Planning,
   Building, breaking, rebuilding,

Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,

Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,

Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,

Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,

Laughing!

Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

Source: Poetry (March 1914).

Sandburg has described the 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."

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Near West SideC h i c a g o

The Loop

TIDBITS

Near West Side
C h i c a g o