Big Shoulders Coffee

Recognized by Food & Wine magazine as the Best Coffee in Illinois, Big Shoulders Coffee is a wholesale coffee roaster, retailer and distributor based in Chicago. We strive to produce high quality coffee that celebrates the cultivator as well as the customer. Chicago BY CARL SANDBURG Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nations Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city wi...