Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co-found Hull House in 1889.

During World War I, Eastman was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party, soon joined by Jane Addams, Lillian D. Wald, and others.

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After studying at the University of Chicago and working with Jane Addams at her settlement house, Hull House, King proceeded to Harvard University.

** Jane Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

* Peace – Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler

* Settlement movement based on Jane Addams ' Hull House in Chicago.

* September 6 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1935 )

* May 21 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1860 )

* Jane Addams Medal for Distinguished Service presented by Rockford College

In 1911 Jane Addams proposed a city-wide Father's Day in Chicago, but she was turned down.

Addams was distantly related to U. S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, despite the different spellings of their last names, and was a first cousin twice removed to noted social reformer Jane Addams.

It is the birthplace of social activist Jane Addams, the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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* Jane Addams Burial Site

The railroad bed is now part of the Jane Addams Trail.

Julius married Marcet Haldeman in 1916 and, at the suggestion of Marcet's aunt, Jane Addams of Hull House, both assumed the surname Haldeman-Julius.

* Jane Addams School

Agreeing with Jane Addams, Rankin argued that slum conditions were worsened by women's inability to vote.

Jane Addams ( September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935 ) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.

Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the youngest of nine children born into a prosperous northern Illinois family of English-American descent which went back to colonial New England ; her father was politically prominent.

Her mother, Sarah Addams ( née Weber ), died in childbirth when Jane was two years old.

John Addams kept a letter from Lincoln in his desk, and Jane Addams loved to look at it as a child.

In 2007, the state of Illinois renamed the Northwest Tollway as the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway.

From 1963 to 1970, the Illinois Department of Transportation ( IDOT ) planned and built a new expressway north from Army Trail Road through Schaumburg to the Northwest Tollway ( now the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway ).

Traveling eastbound from O ' Hare, the Kennedy interchanges with the eastern terminus of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway ( Interstate 90 ) and with the Tri-State Tollway ( Interstate 294 ) at a complex junction just west of Illinois Route 171 ( Cumberland Avenue ).

It crosses most Interstate highways in northern and central Illinois, but the largest towns that Illinois 47 serves are Huntley ( at the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway ), Yorkville ( at U. S. Route 34 ), Woodstock ( at U. S. Route 14 ), Lily Lake at ( Illinois Route 64 ), Elburn ( at Illinois Route 38 ), Sugar Grove ( at U. S. Route 30 ), Morris ( at Interstate 80 ), Dwight ( at Interstate 55 ), Forrest ( at U. S. Route 24 ), Gibson City ( at Illinois Route 54 ), and Mahomet ( at Interstate 74 ).

The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in Illinois is a 79-mile ( 127 km ) segment of Interstate 90 from Interstate 190 in far northwest Chicago to Illinois Route 75, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of the Wisconsin state line.

The Jane Addams Tollway contains 6 lanes ( 3 each direction ) from its Northern terminus at Rockton Road, just south of the Wisconsin State Line, until its interchange with Interstate 39 at Cherry Valley.

The Jane Addams Tollway in Schaumburg, Illinois | Schaumburg.

There are two oases on the Jane Addams Tollway — one at Belvidere, and one in Des Plaines near O ' Hare.

From O ' Hare to Huntley, the region around the Jane Addams Tollway is sometimes referred to as the " Golden Corridor ", due to the proximity of commercial and business activity located along the corridor in Northwest Suburban Chicago.

Interstate 290 connects Interstate 90 ( the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway ) in Rolling Meadows, Illinois with Interstate 90 / Interstate 94 ( the John F. Kennedy Expressway / Dan Ryan Expressway ) near the Loop.

In addition, the Illinois Department of Transportation has proposed a route for a new limited access highway on the west side of O ' Hare Airport which would connect with the Jane Addams Tollway at the site of the Des Plaines Oasis.

Similarly, when traveling south / east from Wisconsin on Interstate 39 / 90 ( Jane Addams Memorial Tollway ), Illinois Route 173 is only the third exit into Illinois.

In July 2007, a new interchange was constructed at Illinois 173 and Interstates 39 / 90 ( Jane Addams Memorial Tollway ).

At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

It is, of course, easy to see how `` J '' will mean Uncle Jack to one person and little Jane to another.

Another marriage of note is that of Jane McAlester and William Louis Pfau.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

After a close reading of the Thesmophoriazousae, the historian Jane McIntosh Snyder observed that Agathon's costume was almost identical to that of the famous lyric poet Anacreon, as he is portrayed in early 5th-century vase-paintings.

Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

Jane Jacobs described it as a natural consequence of collusion between those managing power and trade, while Noam Chomsky has argued that the word " crony " is superfluous when describing capitalism.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

Unlike Jane Eyre, which is written from the first-person perspective of the main character, Shirley is written in the third-person and lacks the emotional immediacy of Jane Eyre, and reviewers found it less shocking.

He is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda is always to inculcate culturally " correct " Stoic opinions, perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but Jane Ellen Harrison found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by Aelian very illuminating in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ( 1903, 1922 ).

* 1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.

* Brooke Vandenberg ( Jane Kennedy ) is a reporter on Frontline.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

Jane Austen's novel is valuable for including a list of early Gothic works since known as the Northanger Horrid Novels.

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

* Aunt Pittypat Hamilton: Her real name is Sarah Jane Hamilton, but she acquired the nickname " Pittypat " in childhood because of the way she walked on her tiny feet.