Jane Addams timeline

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more