George Mortimer Pullman was an American engineer and industrialist best known for designing the Pullman sleeping car and building a model company town in Chicago for his workers. While his innovations ...

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CHICAGO, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The George M. Pullman Educational Foundation (GPEF), a nonprofit dedicated to advancing access to higher education for Cook County students, announced today that ...

George Pullman created a company town for his employees, but it came at a cost. George Pullman created a company town for his employees, but it came at a cost for his workers, while benefitting ...

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John Henry Wilkins, a Pullman sleeping car porter on the Kansas City Special out of Jacksonville, Florida, disappeared from the train he was working on between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. on April 5, 1930. His ...

My late father loved this city’s architecture and history. The Pullman neighborhood, a 10-minute drive from our Calumet Heights home, offered a perfect combination of those passions. We’d brunch at ...

Once known as a dry town, Pullman celebrated beer over the weekend with samples of Seipp Beer and a talk about how beer has long been a part of the neighborhood and Chicago. Several dozen attendees ...

On Nov. 1, 1881, the Hotel Florence opened in Pullman, at the time a railcar manufacturer’s company town south of the city of Chicago. A substantial Queen Anne-style composition of roof peaks, ...