Jane Addams’ American Dream and her legacy were one and the same – service to others, particularly the less fortunate. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams was born Sept. 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. After graduating from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, Addams left her native Illinois for Philadelphia where ...

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 ...

Fate — if there is such a thing — really wanted Liesl Olson, Ross Jordan and Matthew Randle-Bent to end up at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Olson, its director, grew up revering Jane Addams, the ...