Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes exemplified the rise and fall of public housing in the 20th century, from their construction under the New Deal in 1938 to their eventual demolition in the 2000s.

The CHA started building 15 and 16 stories high, including 10 of them in the Grace Abbott and Robert Loomis developments built in the 1950s and 60s in the immediate vicinity of the Jane Addams Homes.

A collection of monument-sized limestone Art Deco animal sculptures designed by Chicago artist Edgar Miller is being reinstalled at the former Jane Addams Homes — in the same playground ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Students and staff at Rockford University honored its famous alumni, Jane Addams, with a “Day of Service” on Wednesday, which found them doing helpful projects around ...

Olson, its director, grew up revering Jane Addams, the social reformer who co-founded the Hull-House settlement. As a student at Connecticut College, Jordan, its longtime curator, ...