![]() ![]() Giving speeches and writing 11 books and hundreds of essays, editorials, and columns, Addams grew famous. She reached out to politicians, business leaders, and philanthropists in Chicago and traveled to settlement houses springing up all over the United States. Addams became its leader, administrator, fund-raiser, and defender. Over the next few years, Hull-House expanded to 13 buildings and became the home of many social workers who took on new tasks: English instruction, adult education, boys and girls clubs. They also delivered babies, nursed the sick, prepared the dead for burial, and, from time to time, sheltered young women from abuse. The early residents, who lived in the house to help the community, held reading groups and sewing classes. The settlement started with a kindergarten, then added a day-care center, then an art studio. Named Hull-House after its original owner, Charles Hull, it would become known as America’s first settlement house. ![]() Her plan was to use the mansion to improve the lives of the urban poor. Addams, like many young people, was searching for purpose and meaning. ![]() The neighborhood was home to thousands of recently arrived immigrants-Italians, Greeks, Russian Jews, Bohemians, and Irish. ![]() In 1889, Jane Addams, an idealistic college graduate, rented a run-down mansion on a derelict strip of Halsted Street in Chicago’s Nineteenth Ward. ![]()
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