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
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
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
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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