Hull House

noun

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

Example Sentences

As the two thieves descended the fire escape, I called down to them, “If you want to find honest work, go to Hull House on Halsted Street. They’ll be able to help you.”

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The best known was Hull House in Chicago, co-founded by social reformer 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.

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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.

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Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago, is perhaps the most representative of this approach.

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