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 ...

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 ...

You might drive on part of the 77-mile stretch of Interstate 90 known as the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway, but do you know the story of the woman who it's named after? She was a pioneering social ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 rooms. No one was in the room at the time, and ...

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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