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The museum is located in the 19th Century mansion occupied by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, founders of the first Hull House settlement, an early model for urban reform in cities around the United States. Furnished in a polite Victorian manner, rooms have exhibits with photos and other artifacts of the many activities that neighborhood youngsters undertook at Hull House: arts, crafts, theatrical productions and other forms of creativity that Addams saw as the antidote to urban degradation. Today, the modern University of Illinois at Chicago surrounds Hull House; the only other remaining building from the settlement, the refectory, now houses an exhibit about early life on the Near West Side and its enclaves of Greeks, Italians, Jews, Irish and people of other nationalities.

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