Hull-House

UIC has long been a gateway to the American dream, as befits its location on Chicago's near west side, where Jane Addams' historic Hull-House -- located on our campus -- so nobly aided earlier generations of the newly arrived and disadvantaged.

Paula Allen-Meares: Why It's Imperative That Everyone Have Access to Higher Education Paula Allen-Meares 2011

UIC has long been a gateway to the American dream, as befits its location on Chicago's near west side, where Jane Addams' historic Hull-House -- located on our campus -- so nobly aided earlier generations of the newly arrived and disadvantaged.

Paula Allen-Meares: Why It's Imperative That Everyone Have Access to Higher Education Paula Allen-Meares 2011

UIC has long been a gateway to the American dream, as befits its location on Chicago's near west side, where Jane Addams' historic Hull-House -- located on our campus -- so nobly aided earlier generations of the newly arrived and disadvantaged.

Paula Allen-Meares: Why It's Imperative That Everyone Have Access to Higher Education Paula Allen-Meares 2011

UIC has long been a gateway to the American dream, as befits its location on Chicago's near west side, where Jane Addams' historic Hull-House -- located on our campus -- so nobly aided earlier generations of the newly arrived and disadvantaged.

Paula Allen-Meares: Why It's Imperative That Everyone Have Access to Higher Education Paula Allen-Meares 2011

Part of that education included a music school; in her memoir Twenty Years at Hull-House, Addams offered this report: From the beginning we had classes in music, and the Hull-House Music School, which is housed in quarters of its own in our quieter court, was opened in 1893.

Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

In the little service held at Hull-House in his memory, when the children sang his composition, "How Sweet is the Shepherd's Sweet Lot," it was hard to realize that such an interpretive pastoral could have been produced by one whose childhood had been passed in a crowded city quarter.

Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Biographical Information: Esther Loeb Cohen (a.k.a. Kohn) was a Chicago native and a 30-year resident of Hull-House.

Personal Information for Esther Loeb Cohen Jewish Women's Archive 2010

In the little service held at Hull-House in his memory, when the children sang his composition, "How Sweet is the Shepherd's Sweet Lot," it was hard to realize that such an interpretive pastoral could have been produced by one whose childhood had been passed in a crowded city quarter.

Brighten the corner where you are Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Biographical Information: Esther Loeb Cohen (a.k.a. Kohn) was a Chicago native and a 30-year resident of Hull-House.

Personal Information for Esther Loeb Cohen 2010

Here in Chicago, Hull-House uses its Tuesday “Re-Thinking Soup” lunches as a catalyst for conversations about the social, political, and environmental issues that orbit food and urban farming.

A Chat with Soup & Bread Founder, Martha Bayne 2010