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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 644 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PULLMAN , formerly a See also:

town of See also:Cook See also:county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., and now a See also:part of the See also:city of See also:Chicago. Here are the See also:works of the Pullman See also:Palace See also:Car See also:Company, See also:steel See also:forging See also:plants, and other factories. The See also:place was founded in 188o by See also:George See also:Mortimer Pullman (1831—1897), the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and the founder (1867) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, who attempted to make it a " See also:model town." Even the public works were the See also:property of the Pullman Company and were managed as a business investment. Popular discontent with the conditions led to the See also:annexation of Pullman to Chicago in 1889, but until 1910 the See also:corporation held most of the property. In See also:June and See also:July 1894 a See also:bitter railway strike See also:developed from a controversy between employed and employers in the Pullman works.

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