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“They cared about people,” she said. The same could be said for Laura Jane Addams, one of the leaders of the original settlement house movement. Born in 1860, she was the daughter of wealthy ...

New York City's Neighborhood Guild (1885) and Jane Addams' Hull House (Chicago, 1888) marked the importation of settlement houses to the U.S.; over 100 existed in America by 1900. The settlement ...

Earl Pierce Photo/Courtesy of University of Illinois Chicago Special Collections Share Chicago theater owes a great debt to visionary social reformer Jane Addams. Without her decision to include a ...

The settlement house movement emerged at that time ... was started by reformer Jane Addams. Settlement houses quickly established themselves as much more than simply a place to find social ...

Olson, its director, grew up revering Jane Addams ... Arts and Crafts movement — which, by the way, traces its origins to Toynbee Hall, the East London settlement Hull-House was modeled upon.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum historicizes the influential social settlement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But little has been done to illuminate the innovative arts education ...

which was part of the Jane Addams “Settlement House” movement of the early 1900s. Unfortunately, it was often closed for lack of funding. Not to be deterred, many a night we would break into ...

After traveling in Europe throughout her twenties, the social reformer Jane Addams returned to Illinois in July 1888, inspired by her experiences at the Toynbee Hall settlement house in London.

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The area drew Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr to establish the first settlement house in the U.S., the famed Hull-House, in 1889 to serve immigrants through day care, English classes ...