{"id":324984,"date":"2025-10-22T23:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/324984\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:03:12","slug":"one-of-the-last-pullman-workers-keeps-history-alive-in-new-chicago-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/324984\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the last Pullman workers keeps history alive in new Chicago exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/A5C8F23DAF771B490C32A977E6C88D18.jpg\" alt=\"One of the last Pullman workers keeps history alive in new Chicago exhibit\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; One of the last surviving Pullman workers is helping keep the factory town\u2019s history alive.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Al Quiroz carried his lunchbox to work at the Pullman Co. from 1959 until the South Side factory closed in 1981. On Wednesday, that same lunchbox went on display at the Chicago History Museum as part of a new exhibit.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Among his other items featured: a worker\u2019s apron sewn from leftover mattress fabric and a set of metal keys once used to unlock train doors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The exhibit, titled &#8220;Aqu\u00ed en Chicago,&#8221; celebrates 170 years of Latino culture and contributions to the city.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Quiroz, 89, is one of the last living Pullman employees.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The &#8220;Aqu\u00ed en Chicago&#8221; exhibit opens to the public Saturday. For more information \u2014 including how to share photos for the museum\u2019s digital community scrapbook \u2014 visit chicagohistory.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article was reported by FOX 32&#8217;s Tia Ewing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; One of the last surviving Pullman workers is helping keep the factory town\u2019s history alive. What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":324985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,5386,1818,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-324984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115420320043260675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}