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American author Eugene Field (1850-1895) lived at the corner of Hutchinson and Clarendon in Buena Park, part of what is now Uptown Chicago. While he is best known for his poems "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod", Uptown residents may be amused by this poem from Love Songs of Childhood (1894). Field’s bedroom overlooked a vacant lot (popular with the local children) belonging to his friend and landlord, Robert A. Waller, known as the founder of Buena Park.


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