John Dewey had arrived to chair the philosophy and pedagogy department. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago, whose Gothic buildings and eminent faculty would rival those of Harvard and Yale. The philosopher had entered a city whose population was exploding with immigrants, many of whom were illiterate a city of half-built skyscrapers and noisome meatpacking plants a city with a new university funded by John D. The strike ended two weeks later, took the lives of thirty people, and symbolized a rapidly changing America dominated by corporations that set laborers against owners. Its arrival was delayed by striking workers of the American Railway Union, who were made furious by the Pullman Company’s decision to cut their wages. In July 1894, a train carrying a young philosopher from Ann Arbor, Michigan, pulled into Chicago Union Station.
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