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Times editorial: Officials should seize Pullman park opportunity

  • Writer: SSMMA
    SSMMA
  • Aug 29, 2014
  • 1 min read

Under-appreciated and even unheralded historical and natural treasures abound in Northwest Indiana and the southern Chicago region — assets that possess the ability to teach us valuable lessons from our past while also attracting tourism and the local revenue that follows.

That’s why a move is afoot in some political and historical preservation circles to transform the former Pullman Palace Railcar Co. and its surrounding historic company town into a national park. We support these endeavors, particularly if such a national treasure is linked via a heritage trail to the historical and natural assets of neighboring Northwest Indiana, including the Dunes National Lakeshore and East Chicago’s historic Marktown neighborhood…Please click here to read the editorial published by the Times.

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