Hull House closes doors after more than 120 years. No bailout?

[Karmadillo]

http://news.yahoo.com/hull-house-closes-doors-more-120-years-183258990.html

CHICAGO (AP) — Hull House, the Chicago social services organization founded more than 120 years ago by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, closed Friday after running out of money.

The Jane Addams Hull House Association announced earlier this month plans to close in the spring, but the shutdown came unexpectedly. More than 300 people are losing their jobs. Many spent Friday packing belongings and saying goodbye.

Founded in 1889, Hull House was the best known of the 400 settlement houses in the United States in the early 1900s. The settlements were designed to provide services to immigrants and the poor while uplifting them through culture, education and recreation. At its peak, Hull House served more than 9,000 people a week, offering medical help, an art gallery, citizenship classes, a gardening club and a gym with sports programs.

In recent years, it has provided child care, domestic violence counseling, job training, housing assistance and other services for 60,000 people a year at nearly four dozen sites in the Chicago area.

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[Peregrine Took]

1. I was surprised an "angel" didn't come to bail it out.

Sad day.

[DCKit]

3. No kidding. They probably have a better ROI than MediCare.

The private sector couldn't do that job for any amount of money.

[dembotoz]

2. hull house was famous the first

i @#$@#$@#$ studied them in college like 40 years ago.

[jwirr]

5. Yes, that is how she became one of my heroes. I wonder if she was still teaching people to speak

English? Specifically immigrants?

[surrealAmerican]

4. This is very sad.

Those are vital services for the community.

[ceile]

6. I have the same question as the article:

Why didn't they let the public know this was happening?

[Odin2005]

7. WHAAAAAAAA??? NOOOOOOO!!!

[jsmirman]

8. K&R *

nm

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. meanwhile, donations pour in for the Benny Hinns and Glenn Becks of the world

Welcome to America, post Reagan and the Bushes.