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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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This new post and funding, a result of Hamilton’s growing reputation, connections at the Hull House and advocacy work, gave Hamilton nine months to draw a direct line between "disease and occupation."

From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2019

One opened in New York that year and another, in Chicago, in 1892 at reformer Jane Addams’s Hull House.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2018

Jane Addams is best known for her work in establishing the Chicago-based Hull House, where immigrants were offered English lessons, child care and other services.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2017

She co-founded Hull House, in Chicago, which inspired the creation of other settlement houses across the nation.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015

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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