{"id":3218,"slug":"pullman-chicago-illinois","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Pullman is the '80 — the 'model town' that's the built, the '4,000 acres' that's the bought. The 'George' is the Pullman — the 'palace cars' that's the made, the 'indoor plumbing' that's the standard. The 'no saloons' is the controlled — the 'Arcade' that's the shops, the 'Hotel Florence' that's the first.","The '94' is the strike — the 'Debs' that's the ARU, the 'federal troops' that's the Cleveland. The 'rents' is the kept — the 'wages cut' that's the 25%, the 'starvation' that's the families. Pullman is the failed — the 'experiment' that's the ended, the 'NHL' that's the '15.","The file keeps Pullman: the 1880 town, the 1894 strike, the Debs boycott, and the failed experiment.","Pullman is the archive's Chicago file — the company town's fall."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Pullman is the archive's Chicago file — the utopia's strike.","A town keeps its rents — the file's suggestion being that Pullman's hold is the model: the 'no saloons' that's the controlled, the '94 strike' that's the national, and the 'failed' that's the experiment."]}],"name":"Pullman","aliases":[],"type":"DISTRICT","type_label":"District","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","INDUSTRIAL","LABOR"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The company town that sparked the 1894 strike.","full_desc":"Pullman is a district in Chicago, Illinois. The company town that sparked the 1894 strike. HauntHunt files it with labor history, dark history and industry. Its accounts name only a collective — the pullman workers. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. 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The site in Chicago, Illinois gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Pullman' keep the claim in circulation. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Pullman workers","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Pullman","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3247,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the district. The site in Chicago, Illinois gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. 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It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1880","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Pullman","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The workers are reportedly remembered. The site in Chicago, Illinois gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Pullman","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Pullman workers","claimed_identity":"The Pullman workers","verified":null,"summary":"The workers are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Pullman workers. Pullman's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Pullman' carries the account. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"The workers are reportedly remembered.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Pullman","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Pullman","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}