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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHull House closes doors after more than 120 years. No bailout?
http://news.yahoo.com/hull-house-closes-doors-more-120-years-183258990.htmlCHICAGO (AP) Hull House, the Chicago social services organization founded more than 120 years ago by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, closed Friday after running out of money.
The Jane Addams Hull House Association announced earlier this month plans to close in the spring, but the shutdown came unexpectedly. More than 300 people are losing their jobs. Many spent Friday packing belongings and saying goodbye.
Founded in 1889, Hull House was the best known of the 400 settlement houses in the United States in the early 1900s. The settlements were designed to provide services to immigrants and the poor while uplifting them through culture, education and recreation. At its peak, Hull House served more than 9,000 people a week, offering medical help, an art gallery, citizenship classes, a gardening club and a gym with sports programs.
In recent years, it has provided child care, domestic violence counseling, job training, housing assistance and other services for 60,000 people a year at nearly four dozen sites in the Chicago area.
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Hull House closes doors after more than 120 years. No bailout? (Original Post)
Karmadillo
Jan 2012
OP
Yes, that is how she became one of my heroes. I wonder if she was still teaching people to speak
jwirr
Jan 2012
#5
meanwhile, donations pour in for the Benny Hinns and Glenn Becks of the world
Adenoid_Hynkel
Jan 2012
#9
Peregrine Took
(7,408 posts)1. I was surprised an "angel" didn't come to bail it out.
Sad day.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)3. No kidding. They probably have a better ROI than MediCare.
The private sector couldn't do that job for any amount of money.
dembotoz
(16,737 posts)2. hull house was famous the first
i @#$@#$@#$ studied them in college like 40 years ago.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)5. Yes, that is how she became one of my heroes. I wonder if she was still teaching people to speak
English? Specifically immigrants?
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)4. This is very sad.
Those are vital services for the community.
ceile
(8,692 posts)6. I have the same question as the article:
Why didn't they let the public know this was happening?
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)7. WHAAAAAAAA??? NOOOOOOO!!!
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)8. K&R *
nm
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)9. meanwhile, donations pour in for the Benny Hinns and Glenn Becks of the world
Welcome to America, post Reagan and the Bushes.