Politics & Government
Chicago's Pullman Historic District Marks 10 Years As Part Of National Park Service
Workers and their families both worked and lived on the grounds, which had a factory and its own streets and housing.
February 20, 2025
This week, the historic community of Pullman on Chicago's Far South Side is celebrating 10 years of being part of the National Park Service.
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Its history not only preserved through its architecture and its role in the labor movement, but by two brothers who worked and continue to live in the onetime industrial town.
Brothers Al and Ray Qurioz may not consider themselves historians, but by most standards, they are. Al, 88, and Ray, 86, are former workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company — one of the first planned industrial communities that specialized in train car manufacturing in the United States.
