The little-known story of the wives and maids who helped propel the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to a groundbreaking agreement with the Pullman Company. Rosina Corrothers-Tucker had spent days ...

The Black workers hired as porters and maids often encountered racism on the job. Black workers were hired to be porters and maids for the Pullman company, and had to cater to passengers’ every whim.

The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. On August 25, 1925, a century ago this year, black sleeping car porters hoping to form a union at ...

In a brick house in Pullman, visitors can step back in time by more than 120 years. The kitchen has an icebox from circa 1900 that once stored ice from Lake Calumet. The parlor features gas lamps, ...

Chick-fil-A restaurants are easy to find — except on the South Side of Chicago. But that’s about to change. The first Chick-fil-A on the city’s South Side opens this February in the Pullman ...

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