In Sandburg’s poem, Sandburg talks about the current state of Chicago. With the New Chicago movement, a few major things change. Hyper technology has come into play and changed Chicago's identity. Sandburg talks a lot about the different people who are in Chicago. He talks about the major jobs and how the city runs. In New Chicago the workforce changes and I included the key differences in the poem. I talked about how manufacturing jobs became less available. I also talked about how the suburbs started to expand, causing minorities to be left in the city.
In the 1940’s thirty-two percent of the labor force was employed in manufacturing. With the implementation of New Chicago’s technology, we saw a huge decline in manufacturing jobs.