Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963, http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/. Created by Rima Lunin Schultz, Ellen Skerret, and Sarah Hoadley. Maintained by the Jane Addams and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/. Created and maintained by the Jane Addams

Abstract

No history of the U.S. settlement house movement is complete without a discussion of the social activist Jane Addams and Hull House. And no location was more affected by Addams and Hull House than Chicago, where the thirteen-building complex served a densely populated, ethnically diverse neighborhood on the city's Near West Side. Two Web sites hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago offer a complex and satisfying portrayal of Addams and of Hull House in its local urban context. Together they provide a richer understanding of Hull House's significance in past and present Chicago. Urban Experience in Chicago offers scholars, teachers, and students a wealth of resources, including primary sources, maps, images, interpretive essays, and a section on teachers' materials. An introductory page to the site acts as a textual site map and introduces the five major content sections: “Historical Narrative,” “Timeline,” “Images,” “Geography,” and “Teachers' Resources.” A “Search...