President Obama to make Chicago district a national monument

By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will designate part of Chicago's Pullman neighborhood, a site famous in the history of urban planning, labor and the civil rights movement, as a national monument, the White House said on Tuesday. Obama once worked as a community advocate in the neighborhood on the far south side of the nation's third largest city. The district's brick homes and ornate public buildings were built in the late 1800s by industrialist Georg