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Addams Park is a public park in Chicago named after Jane Addams. It is located in Little Italy in the Near West Side Community Area. [1] In June 2017 it was announced that Exelon planned to build a $20 million, 100,000 sq-ft multi-purpose indoor facility in the park. [2] It opened in late winter 2019 under the name ComEd Recreation Center.
Jane Addams Memorial Park is a public park in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located near Navy Pier, the park is named after Jane Addams, [1] the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [2] The park has featured a monument designed by Louise Bourgeois. [3] [4]
Interstate 90 ("Jane Addams Memorial Tollway") is the primary interstate highway in the area, providing high-speed limited-access transportation for the corridor. In addition to providing direct highway access to many of the local roads, communities, and amenities of the Golden Corridor, it also provides access to Rockford to the west and ...
Until 2012, the social service center role was performed throughout the city at various locations under an umbrella organization, the Jane Addams Hull House Association. [5] The original Hull House building itself is a museum, part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois Chicago , and is open to the public.
ABLA Homes (Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts, and Grace Abbott Homes) was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing development that comprised four separate public housing projects on the Near-West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The name "ABLA" was an acronym for the names of the four different housing developments that ...
The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there were 74 settlement and neighborhood ...
Jane Addams as a young woman, undated studio portrait by Cox, Chicago Birthplace of Jane Addams in Cedarville, Illinois. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), in the public domain. Born in Cedarville, Illinois , [ 18 ] Jane Addams was the youngest of eight children born into a prosperous northern Illinois family of English-American ...
Jane Addams labeled the community as "The Hull House Neighborhood." [3] One of the first newspaper articles ever written about Hull House acknowledges an invitation sent to the residents of the "Hull House Neighborhood." It begins with the salutation, "Mio Carissimo Amico," and is signed, "Le Signorine, Jane Addams and Ellen Starr."