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Part I: The given life, 1860-88. Self-reliance, 1822-60 -- Three mothers, 1860-73 -- Dreams, 1873-77 -- Ambition, 1877-81 -- Failure, 1881-83 -- Culture, 1883-86 ...

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Installation view, "Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935," Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Credit: Sarah Larson Situated on the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) campus, Jane ...

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 ...

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“Artivist” Nikkolas Smith wasn’t the type of kid to say he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. Instead, he went to college, studied architecture, and thought he would design homes. But now Smith ...

Jane Addams, the pioneering social reformer and philosopher, spent her life asking a deceptively simple question: What can we do to make the world better for one another? Her answer was not simply to ...