USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Born in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860, and graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, Jane Addams founded, with Ellen Gates Starr, the world famous social settlement Hull-House on Chicago’s Near West Side in 1889.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social reformer Jane Addams and close friend Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull-House, Chicago’s first settlement house, in the Near West Side in 1889. “Residents, ” progressive-minded men and women often from comfortable backgrounds, settled at Hull-House and assisted in the many programs offered.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House as a place to offer accommodation, education and opportunity to the residents of the impoverished Halsted Street area, a densely populated urban neighborhood of Italian, Irish, German, Greek, Bohemian, Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House in 1889 on the South side of Chicago, Illinois after being inspired by visiting Toynbee Hall in London. Situated at 800 S.

Detailed explanation-5: -She was an important leader in the history of social work and women’s suffrage in the United States. Addams co-founded Chicago’s Hull House, one of America’s most famous settlement houses, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families.