The Pullman porters laid the seeds of civil rights activism through their labor struggle. A. Philip Randolph led the efforts to unionize. Chicago Stories is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

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.

A Hampton by Hilton Hotel is planned in Pullman, an area that could benefit from the upcoming Obama library and a quantum ...

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 ...

Sometimes, dignity can come with something as simple as a name tag. In 1925, dignity came for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters when the organization got a charter from the American Federation ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Transit Authority will spend $1.3 billion to purchase hundreds of rail cars, and while a Chinese company won the contract the new cars will be assembled in a plant in the ...

The hotel would be the first built south of Hyde Park in more than 40 years and is part of broader efforts to revitalize Pullman.

When No. 9, the first Pullman car, left Bloomington, Ill., for Chicago on the evening of Sept. 1, 1859, it carried four passengers. They slept in wooden bunks, were warmed by a wood-burning stove. A ...

This week, the historic community of Pullman on Chicago's Far South Side is celebrating 10 years of being part of the National Park Service. Its history not only preserved through its architecture and ...

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 ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Chicago Labor Day Parade returned to the Pullman neighborhood on Saturday. “Pullman is one of the most famous labor history sites in the whole world," said ...

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