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| Arts and culture |
| For its youth as compared to Eastern cities, Chicago has made
many significant pop-cultural contributions. In the field of
music, Chicago is well-known for its Chicago blues, but it is
also the birthplace of the House style of music, whose history
is related to the development and fostering of the techno electronic
style of music in nearby Detroit. |
| In the field of popular cuisine, Chicago style Pizza provides
the antithesis to New York styles and hot dogs, being synonymous
with deep-dish and stuffed pizza in addition to being linked
to a robustly complex Chicago style Hot Dog (often called "the
garbage dog") that challenges the relative simplicity of
a New York coney dog. Chicago has a homegrown riposte to the
"po' boy" of New Orleans and the equivalent "hoagie"
of Philadelphia in the Italian beef sandwich. The Italian Beef
typically includes cheese, peppers, and onions. Another local
specialty is "cheese fries", French fries covered
in Velveeta cheese. |
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| In addition, Chicago schools have developed in various studies,
such as the famed Chicago school of architecture and the Chicago
schools of economic theory, literary criticism and urban sociology,
the latter three founded at the University of Chicago. |
| Chicago is a well-known theater capital and is the mecca for
improvizational comedy. It is home to The Second City and ImprovOlympic,
two of the largest comedy troupes in the world. Many world-famous
actors and comedians are from Chicago or have studied there,
particularly at Northwestern University. |
| Chicago also has a great literary tradition. Carl Sandburg,
a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and Abraham Lincoln biographer,
gave the city one of its best-known nicknames, "City of
Big Shoulders", in his Chicago Poems (1916). These poems
are representative of Chicago's spirit. At the same time, Sandburg,
who was a lifelong Socialist, published other less well-known
poems criticising Chicago's disparities in wealth. |
| Historically, Chicago is remembered for machine politics ("Vote
early and vote often" and "A city run of the Daleys,
by the Daleys, for the Daleys" are two phrases associated
with Chicago politics), meat packing (as mentioned in the nicknames
section and made infamous by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), and
gangster violence during Prohibition (some key figures are linked
to Chicago, such as Al Capone and John Dillinger). |
| Chicago is home to the Moody Bible Institute, named after
Dwight L. Moody, a 19th Century evangelist who held a Sunday
School and founded a church there. |
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