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The Town of Pullman ... The model industrial town of Pullman, Illinois had its beginning on May 26, 1880, in the open prairie. This town was the physical expression of an idea born and nurtured in the mind of George M. Pullman, President of Pullman's Palace Car Company.
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www.pullmanil.org/town.htm
www.pullmanil.org/town.htm
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Pullman Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pullman Palace Car Company , founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid to late 1800s through the early decades of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the Uni...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Company
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Pullman, Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pullman is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, twelve miles from the Chicago Loop by Lake Calumet. It is also one of the 77 well-defined Chicago Community Areas. The area known as Pullman en...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicago
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In 1894 the model town of Pullman became the storm center for one of the classic labor struggles in American social history. ... Some 12,000 people lived in the town, which ran according to Pullman's rules. No liquor could be sold except at the Florence Hotel, where workers hardly ventured. There were numerous...
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www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/pullpar.htm
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The Pullman "model town" looks much as it did in 1894 at the time of the Great Pullman Strike. Weekdays, have lunch at the Florence Hotel, ... The Parable of Pullman ; About George Pullman, Pullman Town (on the outskirts of Chicago), the American Railway Union and Gene Debs, and how things went awry in 1894.
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www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/pullman.htm
www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/pullman.htm
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After George Pullman died, the Illinois Supreme Court required that the company self off the town. ... In 1960, the original Town of Pullman (located between 111th and 115th Streets) was threatened with total demolition in favor of an industrial park, Lucky for luxury car rental customers, the Pullman Civic Organization...
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www.lycos.com/info/george-pullman--town.html
www.lycos.com/info/george-pullman--town.html
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The Town of Pullman ... The model town of Pullman was built on 4,000 acres of land on the west shore of Lake Calumet. ... Mr. Pullman intended the town to serve as a center of industry and to house the employees of his car company in a beautiful, healthy and progressive environment that would instill "habits of respectability"
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xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/INCORP/pullman/town.html
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/INCORP/pullman/town.html
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The Town of Pullman; By Richard Schneirov, Indiana State University ... The town of Pullman would be built fourteen miles south of central Chicago with its rough working class districts, its dirty air and unhealthful tenements, and its union organizing and strikes.
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dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events2.html
dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events2.html
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Pullman, a town of eight thousand inhabitants, some ten miles from Chicago, on the Illinois Central Railroad, was founded less than four years ago by the Pullman Palace Car Company, whose president and leading ... Simply as a town, Pullman has not sufficient interest to justify a description of it in a great magazine.
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www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/pullman.htm
www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/pullman.htm
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