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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 100 years ago, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1920, The Chronicle of Two Rivers announced Jane Addams, head of Hull House in Chicago, one of the most prominent women in the country, was booked to deliver ...

Installation view, "Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935," Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Credit: Sarah Larson Situated on the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) campus, Jane ...

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This is Jane Addams week on the blog. I just visited the Hull House Museum in Chicago, examined the replica of the 13-house settlement that Addams and her female compatriots built, thumbed through her ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. A few years ago, a tour group was being ushered through the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum when it was startled by a loud scraping and crash in one of the ...

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 ...

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September 8, 2010 (CHICAGO) To coincide with the 150th anniversary of Addams' birth, the Museum has dramatically expanded the House areas open to the public, developed a new temporary exhibition space ...