The collection Chicago Poems is a significant part of the work of the prolific and versatile author, Carl Sandburg, which in Chicago raised a high hand, deliberately antipoetic, in prose and everyday language, suitable to the vitality that pulsed in the "city of broad shoulders," "turbulent, raucous, brawling" - note the contemporary world for abattoirs and barns which guaranteed disruptive trade and economic growth, with which the American West aspired to free themselves from the hegemony of the East of the country.