Carl Sandburg hailed Chicago as “Hog Butcher for the World.” Novelist Upton Sinclair achieved fame with The Jungle, and it was a major factor in the passage of the nation’s pure food laws.

At the top sit President Clark, an ex-hog butcher, and his conservative fellow officers. They try to do the will of their tumultuous rank-&-file, keep the union’s neck in and hold down its ...

the opening lines of Carl Sandburg’s legendary poem from which the brewery took its name (“Hog Butcher for the World/ Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/ Player with Railroads and the Nation’s ...