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Hull House, the Chicago social services organization founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, closed today due to financial troubles.
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.
In recent years, it provided domestic violence counseling, job training, housing assistance, child care and other services for over 60,000 people a year at almost four dozen sites in the Chicago area.
The agency said the poor economy increased demand for services but made it difficult to raise enough money to cover the cost of providing them. Other service agencies are expected to step in to help provide services to Hull House clients.
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