The Hull-House courtyard is usually a place of conspicuous silence. It sits on the site of the former settlement complex founded by social reformer Jane Addams — at least, until it was almost entirely ...

Social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams was born Sept. 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. After graduating from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, Addams left her native Illinois for Philadelphia where ...

One of the nation’s first housing projects is getting a new life as a public housing museum. Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes exemplified the rise and fall of public housing in the 20th century, from their ...

The three-story brick building where the National Public Housing Museum is opening isn’t only the last of the 32 buildings that once made up the Jane Addams Homes, Chicago’s first public housing ...

Fate — if there is such a thing — really wanted Liesl Olson, Ross Jordan and Matthew Randle-Bent to end up at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Olson, its director, grew up revering Jane Addams, the ...

CHICAGO (AP) – Hull House, the Chicago social services organization that Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams founded in 1889 to help thousands of immigrants adjust to life in America, will close this ...

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Jane Addams Hull House Museum • 800 South Halsted Street, Chicago, uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ or 1-312-413-5353. When • Open Tuesday- Friday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.; Sundays noon-4 p.m. Closed Saturdays and ...

One of America's first examples of public housing are the Jane Adams Homes in Chicago, built in 1938 and named for the trailblazing reformer. Fast forward to now, and there are some 1 million public ...

The University of Illinois at Chicago presents a conversation featuring civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, on the challenge of global and ...