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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

CHICAGO (CBS) --You know the Jane Addams Tollway - but do you know who Jane Addams is? On this International Women's Day, she's one of the women CBS 2 is highlighting with the help of the Chicago ...

The Chicago social service organization founded more than 120 years ago by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams is filing for bankruptcy and closing. The Jane Addams Hull House Association closed ...

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 ...

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 ...