The Labor Day Holiday has its roots in Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who attended the opening of the Pullman National Monument Visitor Center, said the Pullman community “helped put Chicago and Illinois on the map as industrial age powerhouses and served as a backdrop for the historic strike that would reignite labor and civil rights movement across the country, rally people against labor exploitations and lead to Labor Day becoming a federal holiday.”
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