Barack Obama: Library Site Speculation Starts Here!
America’s Next Great Presidential Library? 
Chicago photographer/architecture writer Lee Bey has nominated a great South-Side Chicago location for the inevitable Barack Obama Presidential Library: the remaints of the Pullman railroad works.
Pullman was the scene of an epic 1894 battle 
for workers right to organize, crushed by federal troops dispatched by Grover Cleveland.
With the additional benefit of being near where Obama got his start as a community organizer.
Pullman was built as a model company town, but when the workers struck to oppose a wage cut a violent strike spread across the country as workers boycotted Pullman-built railroad cars.
Future Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs  
rose to prominence as the strike leader 
of the American Railway Union.  He was jailed after the strike, read Marx, and emerged a socialist.
What’s left of the works is owned by the state of Illinois.
Pullman In Happier Times 
