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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. The snare of preparation -- 2. One pilgrim's progress -- 3. Imagining Hull-House -- 4. The family claim and the social claim -- 5. Compassion without condescension : the child and the city -- 6.

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 ...

Classes were canceled Wednesday at Rockford University allowing time for students, faculty, staff and alumni to participate in the annual Jane Addams Day of Service. In celebration of Rockford ...