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Article: Pullman builds on historic roots // Former company town pulls together for revival
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 24, 1987
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Welcome to Historic Pullman, considered "the world's most
perfect town" when railway sleeping car inventor George M. Pullman
built it as a model industrial community in the 1880s.
Today, the parklike collection of red brick row houses is known
for the way its residents pulled together to save it from destruction
in the 1960s and to build on historic roots to give it new and
thriving life.
The Far South Side community also is one of the hottest spots on
the Chicago area's list of historic walks and house tours. Sun-Times
Travel Editor Jack Schnedler rates it among Chicago's Top 10 visitor
highlights.
Talk about community pride. The residents of Pullman do all the
time.
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