Hull House
Americannoun
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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 • Oct. 18, 2021
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 • Jul. 6, 2020
Beginning in 1902, while living at Hull House, Hamilton also began schooling herself about lead and mercury poisoning as she got to know laborers and their wives.
From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2019
The Hull House playground was more elaborate, with sandpiles, swings, building blocks, a giant slide, and ball courts for older children.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 2018
In March he gave a talk at Hull House, a reform settlement founded by Jane Addams, “Saint Jane.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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