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- Pulitzer historian Beverly Gage and journalist Judy Woodruff toured Chicago for PBS NewsHour, filming at the Driehaus Museum.
- Gage said the Pullman strike nationalized labor and labor leader Eugene Debs founded the American Railway Union.
- Museum director Allison Duerk noted Debs’s Terre Haute home now serves as a radical hub.
- Woodruff observed 21st-century labor numbers mirror the Gilded Age, implying a second Gilded Age.
