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  2. List of settlement houses in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Hull House, the first settlement house in Chicago. This is a list of settlement houses in Chicago.. Settlement houses, which reached their peak popularity in the early 20th century, were marked by a residential approach to social work: the social workers ("residents") would live in the settlement house, and thus be a part of the same communities as the people they served.

  3. Settlement and community houses in the United States

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    University Settlement House, Manhattan. The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there ...

  4. Hull House - Wikipedia

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    Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull, opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings.

  5. Juvenile Protective Association - Wikipedia

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    From 1907 until the 1940s, JPA engaged in many studies examining such subjects as racism, child labor and exploitation, drug abuse and prostitution in Chicago and their effects on child development. Beginning in the 1940s under the leadership of Jessie Binford , JPA chose to concentrate on direct service and to help the most resistant clients ...

  6. List of historical sites related to the Illinois labor movement

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    The Springfield and Central Illinois Central Labor Council, assisted by the Illinois AFL–CIO and concerned union members, formed the Central Illinois Labor Temple Trust committee and established a trust to purchase the building and restore it to its original beauty. In June 2004 a check for $10,000 was presented to the City of Jacksonville ...

  7. West Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Historically the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 stated on the West Side before consuming much of the then city, and Jane Addams of Hull House brought international attention to the West Side in the late 1900s and early 20th century. At the same time, some of Chicago's grandest parks and boulevards were laid out on the West Side.

  8. ‘I pay my bills’: Chicago woman loses home despite paying ...

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    She even showed CBS News Chicago reporters proof of her tax payments. It’s been a long-standing issue for McElroy — one she thought she had cleared up in 2019.

  9. Borough of Corby - Wikipedia

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    Corby was a non-metropolitan district with borough status [1] in the county of Northamptonshire, England.It bordered the East Northamptonshire district to the east, the Borough of Kettering to the south and west, the Harborough district of Leicestershire to the north-west, and the county of Rutland to the north-east.