Flashback: At a time when immigrants were feared, Chicago’s Hull House nurtured the lives of the foreign-born

On a Saturday night in 1890, a Tribune reporter went to a party at an address, as she noted, not generally visited by society columnists. It was held at a mansion at 335 S. Halsted St. (the house number was later changed to 800), once home to a prominent businessman, Charles Hull. More recently, the … Continue reading Flashback: At a time when immigrants were feared, Chicago’s Hull House nurtured the lives of the foreign-born