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“Despite Jim Crow and the challenges that Black people faced, people who worked on the railroad had an opportunity to build a better life,” Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said during an event at the Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site.
"The theory of the communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."
Many people point to the Pullman Palace Car Co. strike in Chicago as a pivotal point in America’s labor history and the creation of Labor Day as a federal holiday.
Labor Day and the Foundation for the United Socialist States of Amerika, Chicago was a hotbed of Socialist and Communist organizing activity
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Company town no longer, Pullman has a future bound up in its past. Here's where development in the Far South Side neighborhood stands since the opening of the Pullman National Monument last Labor Day.