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Following a rich legacy // Hull House provides a model for theaters
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The words most often appended to the name of Jane Addams are "social
reformer," "founder of Hull House," "pacifist" and "feminist
leader."
But what is frequently forgotten about the woman who devoted her
life to improving the condition of immigrants and the poor was that
she was a fervent believer in the power of theater and the arts to
improve both individual lives and the community as a whole.
By 1890, the Hull House settlement was sponsoring study groups
in Shakespeare, and p...
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Hull House builds on its century-old foundation of caring
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Uptown Center of the Hull House Association recently sponsored a show of the elaborately embroidered quilts made by the women of the Hmong tribes of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Some of the quilts depict the journey of the people of Chicago's small Hmong community from their rice paddies,
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Hull House labors for children Series: 20TH CENTRUY CHICAGO
Chicago Sun-Times
; At the first Hull House Christmas party, reformer Jane Addams tried giving candy to the children who came by. But a number of little girls refused it. "They worked in a candy factory and could not bear the sight of it," Addams wrote in Twenty Years at Hull House of the exhausted girls, who put in
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New postcard honoring Hull House to debut here
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... self-addresed labels plus 15 cents per card to "Hull House Postal Card, Postmaster, Chicago 60607-9992. The deadline is Oct. 16. CLUB NEWS: The American Philatelic Society will hold its spring meeting in conjunction with the World Columbian Stamp Expo '92, which will ...
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Addams' Legacy Nestled In Hull-House Museum
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... museum as a major civic forum. A multimillion-dollar wing, partly underground, is planned. This year she is showing an exhibit of news clippings and drawings from Chicago's terrible winter of 1893-94. "It was very cold, with hunger, homelessness and massive unemployment ...
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Hull House still inspires us
Chicago Sun-Times
; Chicago's Hull House, which observes its 100th anniversary in ceremonies beginning next week and continuing through next year, became America's most widely known settlement house, bringing international acclaim to the city that fostered the pioneering work of founder Jane Adams. The centennial
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AMERICAN HEROES EVERY KID SHOULD MEET; JANE ADDAMS: 'The first lady of peace'; Sept. 6, 1860 -- May 21, 1935; Humanitarian; Author; Recipient, Nobel Peace Prize
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
; YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD of Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to helping the world's poor people. But did you know that more than 100 years ago, an American-born woman did the same? Her name was Jane Addams, and she almost always knew that she wanted to help people. Jane
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John Sencion Sr.
Chicago Sun-Times
; John Sencion Sr., 60, who played as a child at the original Hull House and later became the director of the Jane Addams Center swimming program, died Tuesday of a heart attack. As a child on the West Side he was in the day care program with Jane Addams in the original Hull House settlement
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Jane Addams labored to unite a nation (still) divided by class
Chicago Sun-Times
; One hundred years ago, Jane Addams, on her way along South Halsted Street to a Bohemian mission in Chicago, passed "a fine old house" surrounded by the teemings slums of recent European immigrants. The house was Hull House and later that year she rented part of the house as the site for her great
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True heroine, false worshipper.(Book Review)
The American Prospect
; Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy By dean Bethke Elshtain. Basic Books, 336 pages, $20.00 THE APPELLATION ST. JANE came early to Jane Addams. Florence Kelley, one of her closest comrades during the early years of settlement work at Hull House, once told Addams that if another woman
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Conference focuses on settlement houses
Chicago Sun-Times
; In the early days of Jane Addams' Hull House, it was a refuge for immigrants with children in tow looking for a meal, a bath, or a place where they could learn English and the ways of a new country. More than 100 years later, modern-day settlement houses, including Hull House, are looking for
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