Hull House provided social and educational support to Chicago’s immigrant poor and dispossessed at a time when class struggle threatened to tear Chicago apart. The 1886 Haymarket riot and the ...

Donation Options Search Search Search The original Hull House now serves as a museum and is located on the University of Illinois Chicago campus. Share In August 2022, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ...

A new exhibit, “Act Well Your Part” opening Monday at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois Chicago, outlines this legacy and its influence on the evolution of ...

CHICAGO - Hull House, the Chicago social services organization founded more than 120 years ago by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, closed Friday after running out of money. The Jane Addams ...

A year after the 1909 Plan of Chicago, Jane Addams published “Twenty Years at Hull-House,” a memoir of her initial years running America’s first settlement house. We take for granted many of ...

What would visitors of Hull House have encountered at the turn of the century? See what it was like to step foot in the well-known Chicago settlement house, which was far more than just a house ...

The nation’s oldest settlement house is closing. Is Jane Addams’s method—having citizens of different socioeconomic classes living among each other—a legacy that we should bring back to life?

CHICAGO – 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 ...

I’m pretty sure she would say that both Twenty Years at Hull-House and The Jungle were efforts to solve the problem of urban poverty and corruption in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century and ...

Hull House," the Chicago variant of that movement which here resulted in the University Settlement, has now been in existence for six years. Its members, or, as they are called, its "residents ...

“but we have a tradition in Chicago that predates that—the ensemble practice we’re talking about here, [which] you see dating back to Hull House. It’s been fun to trace those threads and ...

In 1907, the world’s first official juvenile court and detention center was built in Chicago at Halsted and Ewing streets (formerly 202 Ewing St), right across the street from Hull House.