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Her father was a friend of Abraham Lincoln’s who served in the Civil War and remained active in politics, though he was a miller by trade. The complex expanded to include thirteen buildings and supported clubs and activities such as a Labor Museum, the Jane Club for single working women, meeting places for trade union groups, and a wide array of cultural events. She helped establish the Chicago Federation of Settlements, the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers. She was a leader in the Consumers League and served as the first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later known as the National Conference of Social Work).
Addams Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
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Death of the Hull House: A Nonprofit Coroner's Inquest.
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Tony Szabelski of Chicago Hauntings Ghost Tours points out that during those four years, Hull's wife and two sons died in the house. For Hull and his remaining daughter, the house no longer felt like home – so even though Hull still owned the property until his death, he did not live there again. He and his daughter moved to another mansion elsewhere in the city. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded the Hull House in 1889 as Chicago's first settlement house. Born on September 6, 1860 in the small farming town of Cedarville, Illinois, Addams was the eighth of John Huy and Sarah Weber Addams’ nine children. Nonetheless, she grew up with privilege; her father was among the town’s wealthiest citizens.
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In an era of sexual openness, preoccupied with gender and identity, Addams’s personal life is scrutinized, her female friendships celebrated. “From the first word to the last,” her niece remembered, “she held the complete attention of her audience.” A woman of conviction, Addams was also a politician and compromiser. Generous, she had spent her inheritance on Hull-House and its many activities. By the mid 1890s and for the rest of her life, she lived off income from her writing and public speaking. Self-possessed, she moved easily among the wealthy and famous, perhaps a result of being born into the upper class of Cedarville. Simultaneously she reached out to the immigrants of the Nineteenth Ward and practiced the brotherhood she preached.
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To have significant impact, however, Addams realized that Hull-House needed to be more than a cultural and community center. The settlement started with a kindergarten, then added a day-care center, then an art studio. The early residents, who lived in the house to help the community, held reading groups and sewing classes. They also delivered babies, nursed the sick, prepared the dead for burial, and, from time to time, sheltered young women from abuse.
Because of ill health, she was unable to travel to Norway to accept it. After the war, Addams toured Europe with members of the International Congress of Women. The women were horrified by the destruction they witnessed and were especially affected by the many starving children they saw. As one of America's most admired women, Addams found new opportunities to give speeches and to write about social reform. She shared her knowledge with others in the hope that more of the underprivileged would receive the help they needed.
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There were stories going back about the mansion being haunted long before Addams moved in and founded her settlement house. But in several of the books that Addams wrote – even though she said she didn't really believe in ghosts – she did nickname one of the bedrooms the "haunted bedroom." Americans celebrated business, not reform, corporations, not settlement houses.
During WWI, Addams, a pacifist, attended International Congress of Women at the Hague in 1915, attempting to stop the war. In 1917, she helped found—and served as first president of—the Women’s Peace Party, which became the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in 1919. CHICAGO - Hull House, the Chicago social services organization founded more than 120 years ago by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, closed Friday after running out of money.
Legal protests by a community group organized to preserve Hull House and the neighbourhood were unsuccessful. In 1963 the trustees of Hull House sold its properties and adopted plans for decentralized operations in other parts of the city. The original Hull mansion and the adjoining dining hall were spared demolition and became a museum. The organization, operating as the Hull House Association, continued to provide various services until 2012, when it closed due to financial difficulties. The Hull House also became the nation's most influential settlement house, according to the Encyclopedia of Chicago.
After Rockford, Addams enrolled at the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia, PA, but personal health issues derailed her career in medicine. Searching for her purpose, Addams set out to find a different kind of education; she soon embarked on an extensive, long tour of Europe. Addams traveled to London, where she visited an organization that would serve as a model for her project—Toynbee Hall. Toynbee Hall was a "settlement house," where young, educated men lived in a poor community in order to get to know its residents and to learn how best to serve them. Sociologist Erik Schneiderhan notes the striking parallels between Addams and Barack Obama, who has cited “Jane Addams toiling in a Chicago settlement home” as an inspiration.
For her efforts, she shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Nicholas Murray Butler, an educator and presidential advisor. The other story to which the Hull House building is connected is comparable to the classic 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby" about a devil baby. The film is set in New York, but the Hull House mansion played host to a Chicago version of the story. Next to the Hull-House Museum just to the south on Halsted Street is a courtyard – believed by many to be a portal area for spirits to come in and out of the world. Now, there is a stone bench and a circular path in the courtyard – which sits between the Hull-House Museum and the historic Hull-House Dining Hall building, and in front of the UIC Student Center East.
She completed the second volume of her autobiography, The Second Twenty Years at Hull House, in 1929. Addams and Starr renovated the house and moved in on September 18, 1889. Neighbors were reluctant at first to pay them a visit, suspicious about what the two well-dressed women's motives might be.
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