Among the men and women who tried to improve the living conditions of residents was a woman named Jane Addams. She co-founded the Hull House in 1889 with Ellen Starr. The location of it was a run-down mansion at the center of an inner-city ward thick with sweatshops, factories and crowded tenements. The settlement house was founded three years after Stanton Coit established the first on New York’s Lower East Side and it provided things like kindergarten for children and clinics for the sick.
Jane Addams was one woman who took part in trying to make a difference. Her article “Twenty Years at Hull House” describes her efforts of the settlement houses and how they were an aid to people who were affected by the industrial and social problems that arise from the changes in the city. The poor and suffering were some of the people that she also