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'Read With Me' Author Remembers Old Neighborhood Through Fiction
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The "Back of the Yards" is a neighborhood near the old Chicago Stockyards. Since the early 20th Century, it housed immigrants who processed meat in the city that Carl Sandberg dubbed "Hog Butcher for the World" in his poem "Chicago." Author Sandra Colbert grew up in this neighborhood in the 1950s and '60s, when it was largely Polish and Lithuanian. Her book Chicago Bound re-creates the lives of these residents through short stories that capture their grit, prejudice, violence and dreams. Colbert's book is our Read With Me selection for May. In her introduction, the author calls the nearby stockyards a "place of exhaustion, of sweat and filth" where masses of people toiled for pitiful wages slaughtering thousands of animals every week. After work, they came home and built a community. As the post-war baby boom erupted in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, this community stayed very much the same. It was a community dominated by the Catholic Church, Democratic Party politics and an
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