America’s first model industrial town has deep ties to the nation’s first major rail strike — the Pullman Strike of 1894 — which led to the creation of our national Labor Day holiday. In the 1920s, ...

In 1894 came the famed Pullman strike, featured by the late Eugene Victor Debs’s rise to national prominence and by Mr. Pullman’s classic statement: There is nothing to arbitrate. Mr. Pullman ...

After leading the American Railway Union in a confrontation with federal troops sent to break up the Pullman strike of 1894, Debs was jailed for six months for contempt of court. It was then that ...

There are numerous attractions in Chicago, including museums, architecture, parks, and iconic food that can keep visitors ...

In 1894, Pullman workers went on strike for better wages and living conditions—leading to a national boycott of handling Pullman train cars, and also leading to violence and vandalism as the ...