Jane Addams honored on International Women\u0027s Day
, she's one of the women CBS 2 is highlighting with the help of the Chicago History Museum. Addams was born in 1860 in Cedarville, illinois and went on to become a pioneer of the settlement movement.which was a settlement house near Chicago's West Side. It was America's first settlement house.
"It was meant to bring educational opportunity for training and cultural enrichment programs to help people address poverty and perform a richer community fabric many people who took advantage were women. She started a movement that grew to 500 houses nationwide," said Julie Wroblewski, Director of Collections at the Chicago History Museum.
Addams was the first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. You can learn more about her by visiting the
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