Stories of resistance and resilience are the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award winners

The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award recognizes outstanding children’s books that promote peace, social justice, equity and ...
WBUR

One of the nation's first public housing projects turned to museum

One of the nation’s first housing projects is getting a new life as a public housing museum. Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes exemplified the rise and fall of public housing in the 20th century, from their ...
The Mary Sue

I Hope ‘The Gilded Age’ Gives Us More of This Historical Figure

HBO’s The Gilded Age loves giving viewers tidbits of actual history. Recently, the show mentioned one great historical figure in particular that I hope we can see in future episodes. Season 2 of The ...
WBEZ

What’s That Building? National Public Housing Museum in the former Jane Addams Homes

The three-story brick building where the National Public Housing Museum is opening isn’t only the last of the 32 buildings that once made up the Jane Addams Homes, Chicago’s first public housing ...
Arizona Daily Sun

JANE ADDAMS AND ROOTS OF HULL HOUSE

Social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams was born Sept. 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. After graduating from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, Addams left her native Illinois for Philadelphia where ...
Rockford Register Star

Rockford University volunteers to serve at 25+ sites on Sept. 10

Rockford University students, staff and faculty are set to participate in a day of service Sept. 10. The annual event, organized by the university's Jane Addams Center for Civic Engagement, honors ...