Pullman, Chicago
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Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 defined community areas, is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side. Twelve miles from the Chicago Loop, Pullman is situated adjacent to Lake Calumet.
The former Pullman Clock Tower and Administration Building, opened as the Pullman National Monument Visitor Center in September 2021.
Pullman in the late 19th century
Corliss High School
Pullman Company
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The Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the Unit
Pullman, Chicago
…Illinois Seven Wonders. Historic Pullman was built in the 1880s by George Pullman as workers' housing for employees of his railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company. He established behavioral standards that workers had to meet to live in the area and charged them rent. Pullman's architect, Solon Spencer Beman, was…
Workers leave the Pullman Palace Car Works, 1893
Exterior view of a Pullman car
Interior view of a Pullman car
Coach built in 1890 by Pullman for the B&O Royal Blue, now at the National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation in Baltimore, Maryland