Chicago's far South Side Pullman neighborhood is considered the birthplace of Labor Day.

Congress passed the holiday honoring workers shortly after the 1894 Pullman strike that was suppressed by the federal government, leading President Grover Cleveland's administration to make the conciliatory offer of a federal holiday to unions.

Today, Pullman throws the biggest Labor Day celebration around.

More than 60 unions, including some from Northwest Indiana, will march in the Chicago Labor Day Parade, celebrating Chicago as "hometown of the American Labor Movement" that will step off at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 103rd St. and Cottage Grove Ave. and proceed to 112th St. and St. Lawrence Ave. Eddie Fest, the annual Labor Day celebration named after the firebrand United Steelworkers union

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