Much about Chicago has changed in the 110 years since Carl Sandburg first published his poetic ode to the city, aptly titled ‘Chicago’. But, while the third-largest city in the US may no longer be the hog butcher for the world or the nation’s freight handler, it remains very much steeped in its working-class past, in Sandburg’s words, “lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning”.Which is why, in terms of Chicago’s bar and beverage scene, two attributes are immediately evident to even the most casual observer. First, that Chicago is now a




