One of the nation’s first housing projects is getting a new life as a public housing museum. Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes exemplified the rise and fall of public housing in the 20th century, from their ...

The three-story brick building where the National Public Housing Museum is opening isn’t only the last of the 32 buildings that once made up the Jane Addams Homes, Chicago’s first public housing ...

“Artivist” Nikkolas Smith wasn’t the type of kid to say he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. Instead, he went to college, studied architecture, and thought he would design homes. But now Smith ...

Social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams was born Sept. 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. After graduating from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, Addams left her native Illinois for Philadelphia where ...

Rockford University students, staff and faculty are set to participate in a day of service Sept. 10. The annual event, organized by the university's Jane Addams Center for Civic Engagement, honors ...