Pullman National Historical Park

Pullman National Historical Park in Chicago sits inside the company town George Pullman built in the early 1880s, where tidy brick row houses and company-set rent were meant to shape a disciplined workforce. The guide traces the 1894 wage cuts that never touched that rent, the strike that followed, and the unrest that spread from these streets across the country, killing dozens. It follows Pullman through the depression years and his sudden death a few years later at sixty-six.