The Hull-House courtyard is usually a place of conspicuous silence. It sits on the site of the former settlement complex founded by social reformer Jane Addams — at least, until it was almost entirely ...

In the final installment of our Women’s History Month series, we go inside the lives of immigrant women who found their way to Hull House upon arrival to Chicago, and their homes in the surrounding ...

Installation view, "Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935," Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Credit: Sarah Larson Situated on the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) campus, Jane ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Installation view of Learning Together: Art Education and Community at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Gallery 400 showing artworks from the Yollocalli Arts Reach program (photo by Ji Yang) ...

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 ...

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 ...