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 ...

Earl Pierce Photo/Courtesy of University of Illinois Chicago Special Collections Share Chicago theater owes a great debt to visionary social reformer Jane Addams. Without her decision to include a ...

One of America's first examples of public housing are the Jane Adams Homes in Chicago, built in 1938 and named for the trailblazing reformer. Fast forward to now, and there are some 1 million ...

One of America's first examples of public housing are the Jane Adams Homes in Chicago, built in 1938 and named for the trailblazing reformer. Fast forward to now, and there are some 1 million public ...

Jane Adams is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival ...

Chicago theatermakers and theater lovers were present on April 14 for the opening of a new festival and exhibit aptly named after that motto at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of ...

The 45,000 sq. ft, three-storey museum repurposes the last remaining building of one of Chicago’s oldest federal housing projects, the Jane Addams Homes, which were designed by the architect ...

The Hatches are standing in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams Homes, in an apartment unit eerily like the one Hatch Sr. and his family lived in until he turned 16. It’s not ...

The National Public Housing Museum is located in the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes, Chicago's first public housing development. National Public Housing Museum In the early 2000s ...

About 20 years ago, when many of Chicago’s public housing units were being torn down after years of neglect, some former residents rallied to preserve one building among the Jane Addams Homes ...