Hull House
Americannoun
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The best known was Hull House in Chicago, co-founded by social reformer Jane Addams.
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2022
Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago, is perhaps the most representative of this approach.
From Slate • Jul. 1, 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
She co-founded Hull House, in Chicago, which inspired the creation of other settlement houses across the nation.
From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015
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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