oct 6, 1889 - Hull House Opened

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Hull House was opened in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr on the Near West Side of Chicago, serving as one of the first settlement houses in the United States. This community center aimed to provide social and educational opportunities for working-class people, especially immigrants, in the surrounding urban neighborhood, thereby pioneering the social work movement in America.

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