Last month’s abrupt closure of Hull House, a venerable organization that provided an array of social services to thousands of low-income Chicago residents, is a pointed reminder that many nonprofits ...

CHICAGO (AP) – Hull House, the Chicago social services organization that Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams founded in 1889 to help thousands of immigrants adjust to life in America, will close this ...

The University of Illinois at Chicago presents a conversation featuring civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, on the challenge of global and ...

At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants sought out Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago. There they received medical treatment at settlement-house clinics, learned job skills through ...

Hull House was made famous by Jane Addams, who opened it as a settlement house for European immigrants arriving in the U.S. With many ghosts said to haunt the house, Addams herself spoke of one of the ...