Founders & Guardians is a series The Meadville Tribune i{em}s publishing as America gets ready to celebrate the 250th ...

Laura Jane Addams was born on Thursday, September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. She was the eighth of nine children born to John and Sarah Addams. Born into a family ...

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” — Jane Addams Laura Jane Addams was born on Thursday, Sept. 6, ...

Immigrants coming to Chicago in the 1800s used the art of crafting to build community with each other, and the Jane Addams Hull-House was one of the major hubs of this activity. “The [Federal Reserve] ...