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WaPo: For her work, Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Much of Addams’s legacy is tied to social work — including the establishment of Chicago’s famed Hull House in the late 1880s, which she and friend Ellen Gates Starr grew into a thriving hearth and hub for the underserved and underprivileged. According to the official site of the Nobel Prize, the Hull House helped and hosted 2,000 people each week by its second year of existence — and gradually added a public kitchen, a day-care center, various physical-fitness facilities, an art gallery and studio and classes and cultural groups, a library and a labor museum and an employment bureau. It became a place to renew and rebuild mind and body and soul — and a common ground to foster community.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:46:54 +0000

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