Hull House, one of the first settlement houses, was founded by Jane Adams in Chicago in 1889. Hull House is located in a run-down neighborhood in Chicago. It has a day nursery, a dispensary for medicines and medical advice, a boarding house, an art gallery, and a music school.
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