Jane Addams Events

1860 Sep 6 Jane Addams Is Born
Social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. After graduating from Rockford College in 1881, Addams left her native Illinois for Philade...
1881 Jane Addams graduates from Rockford College
Today, the spirit of Jane Addams (Rockford College alumna) lives on at Rockford College. As Jane Addams’ college in the 21st century, we seek to create a world that is more just, more ...
1889 Jane Addams and Ellen Starr opens the Hull House in Chicago
Hull House, the most well known settlement house in the United States, was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hul...
1894 Jane Addams helps start The Chicago Federation of Settlements
The Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers (CFSNC) was founded at Hull-House in 1894 by representatives from Hull-House, Northwestern University Settlement, Maxwell St...
1895 Jane Addams is appointed garbage inspector
Addams' approach began to change, however, and she became motivated to physically improve her neighborhood. Concerned about the putrid conditions that bred rats in the alleys and streets ...
1903 Jane Addams becomes vice president of National Women's Trade Union League
Founded in 1903 by Jane Addams, Mary Anderson and other trade unionists, the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) devoted itself to securing better occupational conditions for women and enco...
1905
to 1908
Jane Addams serves as member of the Chicago Board of Education
As her reputation grew, Miss Addams was drawn into larger fields of civic responsibility. In 1905 she was appointed to Chicago's Board of Education and subsequently made chairman of the S...
1909 Feb 12 The National Association for the Advacement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded
Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots–based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters t...
1910 Sep 22
to 1911 Feb 18
 Chicago Garment Workers Strike
Nationally, between 1880 and 1920, the needle trades were the third most strike-prone industry after mining and the building trades. By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, th...
1912 Aug Jane Addams seconds Theodore Roosevelt's nomination for the Progressive Party
At the first national convention of the Progressive Party, in Chicago in August of 1912, all observers noted the prominence of women, women delegates, women leaders. The Kansas newspaper ...
1915 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is founded by Jane Addams
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world...
1915 Jan 10 Woman's Peace Party is formed
On the outbreak of the First World War a group of women pacifists in the United States began talking about the need to form an organization to help bring it to an end. On the 10th January...
1931 Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the youngest of six children born into a prosperous, loving family. Although she was the eighth child, two of her siblings died in infancy, l...
1935 May 21 Jane Addams Dies
The Jane Addams Burial Site is located in Cedarville Cemetery in the village of Cedarville, Illinois, United States. Jane Addams' burial site is located on a family plot which also contai...
2007 Sep 7 Northwest Tollway (I-90) renamed Jane Addams Memorial Tollway
The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in Illinois is a 79-mile (127 km) segment of Interstate 90 from Interstate 190 in far northwest Chicago to Illinois Route 75, one mile (1.6 km) south of t...