The legacy and impact of George Pullman and the Pullman Porters are featured in murals displayed along the Kennedy Expressway.

Chicago businessman George Pullman started hiring thousands of Black men, many former slaves, to serve passengers traveling the country on luxurious sleeping cars, known as Pullman cars.

They include: Advertisement -- Poet Edmund Waller in 1606 -- Industrialist George Pullman in 1831 -- Inventor Alexander Graham Bell in 1847 -- Fraudster Charles Ponzi in 1882 -- Actor Jean Harlow ...

and famously pulled the George Washington between Cincinnati and Washington D.C. One feature that made the train a stand out was the Pullman heavyweights that featured the route’s name across ...