A historic piece of Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood is at risk of falling into disrepair, and supporters are rallying to save ...

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

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.

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 ...

Long-term travel required more comfortable accommodations, which opened the door for the first luxury sleeper service, created by George Pullman of the Pullman Palace Car Company. The sleeper cars ...

A brief history of the Pullman Company and historic district George M. Pullman, president of the Pullman Palace Car Company, had construction begun for his company town in the 1880s. The town of ...

What a difference a few years would make. In 1865, George Pullman would introduce his revolutionary Palace cars. Finally passengers, for an extra two dollars, could ride in style, comforted by ...

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 ...