Between Halsted Street and the river live about ten thousand Italians. Hull-House once stood in the suburbs, but the city has steadily grown up around it and its site now has corners on three or four foreign colonies. Halsted Street is thirty-two miles long, and one of the great thoroughfares of Chicago. A description of the street such as I gave in those early addresses still stands in my mind as sympathetic and correct. Halsted Street has grown so familiar during twenty years of residence, that it is difficult to recall its gradual changes,-the withdrawal of the more prosperous Irish and Germans, and the slow substitution of Russian Jews, Italians, and Greeks. Twenty years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes. On the streets directly west and farther north are well-to-do English-speaking families, many of whom own their houses and have lived in the neighborhood for years one man is still living in his old farmhouse.Jane Addams, "First Days at Hull-House," 1910įrom Jane Addams. French, clannish in spite of their long residence in America, and to the north are Irish and first-generation Americans.
Still farther south, these Jewish colonies merge into a huge Bohemian colony, so vast that Chicago ranks as the third Bohemian city in the world. To the south on Twelfth Street are manyĪnd side streets are given over almost entirely to Polish and Russian Neapolitans, Sicilians, and Calabrians, with an occasional Lombard or Venetian. Between Halsted Street and the river live about ten thousand
Settling on a site somewhere near the junction of Blue Island Avenue, Halsted Street, and Harrison Street, Addams found a “fine old house standing well back from the street, surrounded on three sides by a broad piazza.” She and Ellen Gates Starr furnished Hull House “as we would have furnished it were it in another part of the city.”Īround Hull House was a neighborhood teeming with immigrants and their own institutions, like the imposing Holy Familyīut this was not a neighborhood of one immigrant group, and Addams understood this diversity just beyond her front porch: In one of Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods, she needed the help of Chicago reporters and businessmen to find a suitable location. When Jane Addams arrived in Chicago in 1889 with the intention of founding a
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