The legacy and impact of George Pullman and the Pullman Porters are featured in murals displayed along the Kennedy Expressway.

Since the Pullman Company began employing Black men — many former slaves — as porters to wait on passengers in 1867, they were simply called “George” as a derogatory acknowledgment that ...

Chicago businessman George Pullman started hiring thousands of Black men, many former slaves, to serve passengers traveling the country on luxurious sleeping cars, known as Pullman cars.

So the train became that vehicle." It was that same year when George Pullman, a pioneer of railroad travel, had just completed the first luxury sleeping car, changing the game for cros- country ...

They include: Advertisement -- Poet Edmund Waller in 1606 -- Industrialist George Pullman in 1831 -- Inventor Alexander Graham Bell in 1847 -- Fraudster Charles Ponzi in 1882 -- Actor Jean Harlow ...