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Hull House

American  

noun

  1. a settlement house in Chicago, Ill., founded in 1889 by Jane Addams.


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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

You might say Hamilton got fully “woke” when Addams made a place for her in Chicago’s Hull House, the largest of the nation’s settlement communities.

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

Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-willed young women, “interspersed,” as one visitor put it, “with earnest-faced, self-subordinating and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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