The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L.L. Bean believes the more time you spend outside together, the better.

That's why they've partnered with the National Park Foundation to help you find your park and get there

with family and friends.

With more than 400 national park sites in the U.S.

there are beautiful surprises to be found in every corner of the country.

There's probably one closer than you think.

Be an outsider with L.L. Bean. Perhaps no city in the United States exceeds Chicago in the number, breadth, intensity, and

national importance of labor upheavals.

One of our most recent National Park Service sites celebrates and remembers the contributions

to American society of an ingenious entrepreneur, but more importantly the workers who

made his dreams happen and their battle for fair pay.

I'm Jason Epperson and today on America's National Parks, the Pullman National Monument. George Mortimer Pullman was born in Brockton, New York to his mother Emily and father James.

When he was young, his family relocated to Albion, New York,

along the Erie Canal.

Holman dropped out of school when he was 14

and began working with his father helping him move houses during the expansion of the

canal. As an adult, Holman sought opportunity in the growing city of Chicago. Built on a bog, Chicago was unable to construct a sewage system

without first raising the level of the streets.

Using his knowledge of relocating buildings to new foundations,

Pullman devised a way to raise Chicago's already

built buildings to the new grade level, thus making his early fortune. Pullman's journey to Illinois was carried out on a cramped and uncomfortable cross-country railroad train,

an adventure that led him to turn his attention to improving the experience.

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