A special treat awaits visitors as the Hotel Florence will be open during the house tour. The Hotel Florence, the first non-industrial building in Pullman, has been closed to the general public for over 20 years.
Since 1885, when the former Home Insurance Building stretched 138 feet into the air on the corner of Adams and LaSalle Streets and went down in history as the world’s first skyscraper, Chicago has beckoned visitors from across the globe with sites and attractions as one-of-a-kind as the Windy City itself.
History on display at Pullman National Monument this Labor Day chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Kenneth Schoon, professor emeritus at Indiana University Northwest, has immersed himself in the history of the Greater Chicago/Northwest Indiana area for decades, writing books starting from the area’s earliest beginnings,
Thanks to a large grant facilitated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as well as contributions from Landmarks Illinois and local groups, the crumbling facade of Pullman's Greenstone Church steeple is being stabilized with an eye to an incremental full restoration.