All Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Sasha Salguero Gomez and UIC Business Lecturer Morgan Lord in class.

November 14, 2025

Business class uses improvisation to teach team building and other workplace skills  

The Professional Presence class, also known as Business Administration 420, is part of UIC’s professional development program.

A newly built welcome desk along the original stairway at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

October 6, 2025

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum projects earn architecture award  

The project earned the most votes in the cultural category of the Lerch Bates People’s Choice Awards.

Nadia Maragha (second from right), Hull-House Museum education manager, discusses Jane Addams in Addams' bedroom in the museum.

July 1, 2025

UIC faculty transform Hull-House legacy into a living classroom  

During the workshop, faculty toured the museum, which was also Jane Addams’ home.

Lisa Yun Lee, executive director of the National Public Housing Museum.

April 15, 2025

UIC lessons guide creation of first national public housing museum

The National Public Housing Museum is on the site of the only remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes.

Photo of former student Nez Castro

January 28, 2025

UIC students help build upcoming museum exhibit about Latinos  

A former UIC student helped create the Digital Communities’ Scrapbook for a Chicago History Museum exhibit

September 30, 2024

Lost to time: Who made the crafts at Hull-House?

Hull-House show spotlights century-old textiles and their unknown makers

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March 12, 2024

National Endowment for the Humanities chair visits Hull-House

Shelly Lowe, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, toured the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in February and met with UIC students and staff

A person is laying down under the covers in a single bed with a lamp on.

October 24, 2023

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum offers chance to rest in an icon’s bed

Jane Addams Bedroom Project runs through fall semester

Jeremy Bolen, Because the Sky Will Be Filled with Sulfur 2022.

October 5, 2023

UIC awarded NEH grant for sustainable exhibition spaces

Grant requires UIC to raise a 1-to-1 match from nonfederal third-party funds

Liesl Olson is the new Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

January 26, 2023

Cultural historian, writer named director of UIC’s Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Liesl Olson is a respected scholar, cultural leader and social justice advocate

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