The Illinois Labor History Society will join with the National Park Service (NPS) Pullman National Monument (PNM), the State Historic Site and other partners to celebrate Labor Day in Pullman on Monday, September 5.

Activities are located in the NPS Visitor Center and on the IDNR factory grounds at 111th and S. Cottage Grove Ave.  Opening remarks at the tent start at noon followed by four additional performances.  Adjacent tents will host partners celebrating the theme "Building Solidarity Through Diversity."  All activities are free and family-friendly.    

From 1—2 p.m. ILHS member Bucky Halker, along with mandolin virtuoso Don Stiernberg will play labor music.  Union actor and ILHS board member

Alma Washington and friends will present a short theatrical presentation.

The ILHS will offer Pullman Labor History tours at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m., leaving from the reconstructed workers gate at 111th Street.  Additionally, NPS Rangers are leading "Pullman Strikes Over Decades" tours of the historic grounds at 1 and 3 p.m..