Armour also established a high-school-level academy that offered trade courses for young women and a circulating library for residents of Chicago’s poorer neighborhoods. Young men and women of the best families were admitted to the institute, with the aim, as the Chicago Tribune noted, of “rubb[ing] out the line between the laboring classes and the wealthy classes…. The millionaire’s daughter and my lady’s dressmaker or laundrywoman are already standing here, shoulder to shoulder, learning to see things from the same point of view.”
