Hey, I'm Curious City intern, Linnea Dominic.

We're continuing to work on new formats for our podcast, so for this week's episode, we return to a favorite from the archives.

And stick around at the end to hear more about how the school year is going, especially for some communities where accessing the internet is a challenge.

Reporter Jesse Dukes takes it from here.

The fog comes on little cat feet.

It sits looking over city and harbor on silent haunches, and then moves on.

That voice is Carl Sandberg, reading a famous poem he wrote one morning in Chicago from a bench

in Grant Park. Sandberg is the subject of a question from Ryan Sowers.

Ryan Sowers. Ryan wants to know, where did Carl Sandberg live and work in Chicago?

Before I started working on this question, all I knew about Carl Sandberg live and work in Chicago. Before I started working on this question,

all I knew about Carl Sandberg was he called Chicago the city of the big shoulders. But it turns out

that Sandberg's relationship with Chicago goes way beyond that nickname. The events he witnessed here,

the people he met and the places he encountered helped shape his writing and launch his literary career.

And his relationship with the city would continue to influence him throughout his life.

Sandberg wasn't just a major American poet. He was also a journalist, political radical,

Abraham Lincoln biographer and folk singer. And I have to say, learning about him has been pretty amazing.

Some of the things he wrote about Chicago a century ago seemed like they could have been written today.

He wrote about corruption, racism, inequality, and violence. But he also loved the hubbub of the city and its people.

So, to answer Ryan's question, we'll hear how Sandberg drew inspiration from the city streets he wandered, the newspapers where he worked, and the homes where he spent time with

his family.

His Chicago story begins in 1912.

He was a struggling writer, a new father, and an aspiring poet.

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