Hull House

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This account recalls a number of telling details of that era, when Jane Addams taught citizenship at Chicago’s Hull House, Lillian Wald dispatched visiting nurses from New York’s Henry Street Settlement and Simkhovitch, in 1902, founded and led New York’s Greenwich House.

From The Wall Street Journal

The best known was Hull House in Chicago, co-founded by social reformer Jane Addams.

From Washington Post

He was a gofer, a 14-year-old kid working backstage in a play that I was doing at Hull House, which was the beginning of the theater movement in Chicago.

From Washington Post

In 1889, Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago, a social settlement for young, unmarried women and immigrants who needed a safe home and a sense of community.

From The Guardian

Addams founded Hull House in 1889, and over time, the organization compiled a variety of services to aid the working-class immigrants who were its neighbors: kindergarten and day care facilities, an art gallery, libraries, art classes, and an employment bureau, among others.

From Slate