Social Settlement
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In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started a successful and influential social settlement in Chicago.1 It served a low-income neighborhood of Russian and Polish Jews, Italians, Irish, Germans, Greeks, Bohemians, Romanians, Mexicans, and others. Known as Hull House, it provided services including kindergarten facilities, tutoring in English, an employment bureau, an art gallery, libraries, music and art classes, a cooperative residence for working women, the first Little Theater in America, a Labor Museum, and a meeting place for trade unions.
