Goodbye to Hull House

Hull House, 2010

Sad news today. Hull House, the settlement house that Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started in Chicago in 1889 to help immigrants and poor families, has run out of money and is closing its doors. The original Hull House was modeled on a reform movement in England, in which rich and or middle-class settlement workers, or residents, would live in a poor neighborhood and share their knowledge with their neighbors. There were classes in everything from basic childcare to...