CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Jane Addams Hull House Association, one of the oldest and most famous social service organizations in Chicago, will shut down in a couple of months. As WBBM Newsradio's Bob Roberts ...

The Hull-House courtyard is usually a place of conspicuous silence. It sits on the site of the former settlement complex founded by social reformer Jane Addams — at least, until it was almost entirely ...

CHICAGO — At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants sought out Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago. There they received medical treatment at settlement house clinics, learned job skills ...

The Hull House will put off filing for bankruptcy until Monday so that checks can clear. But services at the historical agency ended Friday. The 120-year-old organization provided foster care, ...

Last month’s abrupt closure of Hull House, a venerable organization that provided an array of social services to thousands of low-income Chicago residents, is a pointed reminder that many nonprofits ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- After 122 years of helping Chicagoans in need, Hull House shut its doors for good Friday after running out of money. "This is a difficult journey," Phyllis Offord told CBS's Mike ...

Hull House, the crown jewel of American settlement houses, is gone. The common post-mortem: It relied too much on a state that doesn’t pay its bills and its leaders didn’t move quickly enough to ...

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