President Obama heads to Chicago for Pullman’s National Park designation

President Obama heads to Chicago for Pullman’s National Park designation

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President Obama is coming to town to designate parts of Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood a national monument, the first in the city of Chicago. Activists and lawmakers have been pushing for it to be a national park for years, but legislation stalled. Now the president is signing an executive order. Lynne McClure is the Midwest Senior Director of the National Parks Conservation Association, and she joins us.