The three-story brick building where the National Public Housing Museum is opening isn’t only the last of the 32 buildings that once made up the Jane Addams Homes, Chicago’s first public housing ...
One of the nation’s first housing projects is getting a new life as a public housing museum. Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes exemplified the rise and fall of public housing in the 20th century, from their ...
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WREX) — Rockford University honored renowned alumna Jane Addams on Wednesday, September 10, with their annual Day of Service. "Jane showed the world that one individual, one individual ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On a gray Thursday on Chicago’s Near West Side, Rev. Marshall Hatch Sr. stepped through time. Here were his five sisters, proudly donning caps and gowns in ...
About 20 years ago, when many of Chicago’s public housing units were being torn down after years of neglect, some former residents rallied to preserve one building among the Jane Addams Homes, one of ...
Rockford University students, staff and faculty are set to participate in a day of service Sept. 10. The annual event, organized by the university's Jane Addams Center for Civic Engagement, honors ...
Part I: The given life, 1860-88. Self-reliance, 1822-60 -- Three mothers, 1860-73 -- Dreams, 1873-77 -- Ambition, 1877-81 -- Failure, 1881-83 -- Culture, 1883-86 ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The social reformer Jane Addams gave her first speech against imperialism on April 30, 1899, when she declared, “For ...