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Let's Talk About The Pullman Strike, Knob-Gobblers

Behind the Bastards

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Pullman, I'm Going to Get a Positive Return on This as an Investment

The town of Pullman, Illinois is a neighborhood on Chicago's Southside. The factory took up nine buildings on 30 acres and Pullman the town was exhaustively planned around it to be as modern as possible. Sewer and gas lines were added first so that every home would enjoy heating and water. But low paid grunt laborers still lived in claustrophobic tenement blocks. They were done up so on the outside it looked like a nice block of houses but it was tenements on the inside.

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