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===Namesakes=== [[Carl Sandburg Village]] was a 1960s urban renewal project in the [[Near North Side, Chicago]]. Financed by the city, it is located between Clark and LaSalle St. between Division Street and North Ave. Solomon & Cordwell, architects. In 1979, Carl Sandburg Village was converted to condominium ownership. Numerous schools are named for Sandburg throughout the United States, and he was present at some of these schools' dedications. (Some years after attending the 1954 dedication of [[Carl Sandburg High School]] in [[Orland Park, Illinois]], Sandburg returned for an unannounced visit; the school's principal at first mistook him for a [[hobo]].){{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} [[Sandburg Halls]], a student residence hall at the [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]], carries a plaque commemorating Sandburg's roles as an organizer for the Social Democratic Party and as personal secretary to [[Emil Seidel]], Milwaukee's first Socialist mayor. Carl Sandburg Library opened in [[Livonia, Michigan]], in 1961. The name was recommended by the Library Commission as an example of an American author representing the best of literature of the Midwest. Carl Sandburg had taught at the [[University of Michigan]] for a time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livonia.lib.mi.us/sandburg |title=Carl Sandburg Library Homepage |publisher=Livonia.lib.mi.us |year=2008 |access-date=April 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216050707/http://livonia.lib.mi.us/sandburg |archive-date=December 16, 2012 }}</ref> Galesburg opened [[Sandburg Mall]] in 1975, named in honor of Sandburg. The [[Chicago Public Library]] installed the Carl Sandburg Award, annually awarded for contributions to literature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cplfoundation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_sandburgawards_co|title=October 23 Dinner Honors Allende, Lewis and Sneed|publisher=[[Chicago Public Library]]|access-date= January 3, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230958/http://www.cplfoundation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_sandburgawards_co|archive-date= December 2, 2013}}</ref> Amtrak added the ''[[Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg|Carl Sandburg]]'' train in 2006 to supplement the ''[[Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg|Illinois Zephyr]]'' on the [[Chicago Union Station|Chicago]]–[[Quincy station (Amtrak)|Quincy]] route.<ref>Amtrak Press Release, October 8, 2006. [http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Copy/News_Release_Page&c=am2Copy&cid=1093554066642&ssid=180 Amtrak.com.]</ref> [https://sandburgms.fcps.edu/about/history Carl Sandburg Middle School] in Alexandria, Virginia, part of [[Fairfax County Public Schools]], was named in honor of Sandburg in 1985.
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