Above Chicago. This broad-shouldered metropolis, Carl Sandburg"s "Hog butcher of the world," is a city of the plains clutching the lake to its heart. It tells the story of Chicago from the Loop to the Stockyards, from its incomparable golf courses to some of the tallest pinnacles in the world.Here is the most exciting architectural displays of all time, the famed boulevards, the sports town, the beaches and the backwaters viewed as never before.