In today's DailySouthtown Landmarks column, the spirit of being a caretaker of history is a fit for Lisa Burback as the newest park ranger at Pullman National Monument, Chicago’s only National Park Service property.
Lisa Burback moved from Chicago's North Side to a historic worker's cottage in Pullman in 2016, and recently became Pullman National Monument's newest park ranger.
Moving from the bustling North Side to “the very far reaches of the South Side” constituted a lifestyle change, Burback said.“I didn’t know what I was getting into,” she said. “The community is so involved. You can’t walk down the street without people checking in on you, saying hi, seeing what you’re up to. Living in that kind of small-town environment was new to me, and it’s great.”
“There were no notorious figures who lived in our house, except for one,” she said, which gave her another connection to Chicago history.One of the home’s early owners was the co-owner of the Arcade Trading Co., a general merchandise store in Pullman’s Arcade Building, which some people consider to be America’s first indoor mall.
That was about a month ago. In the weeks since, she’s been learning even more. Last week, she found out about the, one of the few contracting companies George Pullman allowed into his railcar complex. The idea was to make train wheels by encasing compressed paper in iron.
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