City of Big Shoulders

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City of Big Shoulders is a poetic nickname for Chicago that evokes its history as a powerful industrial and working-class metropolis.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetic nickname
appliesTo Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: city of Chicago
associatedWith American urban culture
Chicago literature
category nicknames of Chicago
nicknames of cities
country United States of America
surface form: United States
describes Chicago as a powerful industrial metropolis
Chicago as a working-class metropolis
evokes Chicago industrial history
Chicago working-class heritage
image of physical and economic strength
hasConnotation industrial power
labor
strength
working-class identity
language English
locatedIn Illinois
Midwestern United States
refersTo Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago
symbolizes Chicago as a city built by labor
Chicago as a major industrial center
usedAs nickname for Chicago
usedInContext cultural commentary on Chicago
literary description of Chicago
poetry

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Chicago, Illinois, United States nickname City of Big Shoulders