Jane Addams

Fox News attacks Barack Obama for giving props to Sitting Bull

2010-11-17 21:32:27

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Book review: 'A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot' by Mary Walton

2010-09-12 00:00:00

"A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot" by Mary Walton (Palgrave/Macmillan: 284 pp., $28.) Alice Paul was a warrior for women's suffrage. A Quaker from New Jersey, she went to Swarthmore, the college her maternal grandfather...

Critic's Notebook: 'The Art of the Steal: The Untold Story of the Barnes Foundation'

2009-11-03 21:32:38

Museums

2013-05-22 14:31:55

Elmhurst Historical Museum 120 E. Park Ave., Elmhurst; 630-833-1457, elmhursthistory.org The regional history museum is located in the Glos Mansion, former home of Elmhurst's first village president, Henry L. Glos, and offers a look at the lifestyle...

Family Services has a strong local history

2013-05-18 13:49:00

Recently, The Advocate-Messenger described a discussion of city commissioners about when the city began supporting charitable organizations. I do not wish to enter the political aspect of the discussion, but merely to report on the historical issue in...

Robert Sickinger, pioneer of Chicago theater, dies at 86

2013-05-09 09:25:00

Robert Sickinger, a pivotal figure in the development of Chicago's off-Loop theater scene, died Thursday morning at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. Sickinger was 86. His daughter, Erika, said her father died from natural causes. To the extent that...

Chicago Community Trust encourages nonprofits to merge, form partnerships

2013-02-10 00:00:00

Chicago's largest donor to local charities also is helping some go out of business. During the past five years, the Chicago Community Trust has assisted more than 100 nonprofit organizations with costs associated with a closing, merger or...

Chicago Confidential: Eleanor Foundation to merge into Chicago Foundation for Women

2012-09-07 00:09:00

The Eleanor Foundation, a nonprofit primarily assisting single mothers that is more than 110 years old, will soon wind down its operations and transfer its approximately $7 million in assets to the Chicago Foundation for Women. "This is not done in a...

Remarkable Woman: Sunny Fischer

2012-07-08 00:00:00

When Sunny Fischer was 4, her family moved into a new apartment with a shiny stove and easy access to green space and playgrounds. "The schools were great — I had terrific teachers," Fischer says. "There was a library within the development that I...

Man pleads guilty to drunk driving in fatal 2011 crash

2012-07-27 13:43:00

A Carpentersville man pleaded guilty today to driving drunk during a 2011 single-car accident that killed one of his passengers. Ulises Beltran, 24, of the 1600 block of Sacramento Drive, agreed in Kane County court to plead guilty to two counts of...

Fundraisers focus on home and art

2012-04-20 15:30:00

The National Public Housing Museum's April 15 benefit, "An Afternoon of Good Times," honored three nationally renowned humanitarians for their commitments and contributions to inner-city housing and empowerment of its residents. Steve Pemberton, author...

Chicago's other Nobel Peace Prize laureate

2012-04-22 00:00:00

Quick, name Chicago's Nobel Peace Prize winners. President Barack Obama and Hull House co-founder Jane Addams are two. But the third? That would be former Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who lived in Evanston and whose lakefront mansion is now the...

Few Chicagoans have had as lasting an impact on the world as the mother of the American social work movement. And few homes feel as much like a living tribute as the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum on the University of Illinois-Chicago campus.

2012-08-15 10:36:00

Jane Addams , January 7, 1933.

2012-07-06 11:12:12

Sunny Fischer on the roof of the former Jane Addams Public Housing development (1322 W. Taylor St. in Chicago), which will become a public housing museum.

2012-06-19 00:00:00