The Selected Papers of Jane AddamsIn 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a vision for achieving a more secure, satisfying, and hopeful life for all. Eleven years later, her scheme, as she called it, had become Hull House and stood as the template for the creation of the American settlement house movement while Addamss writings and speeches attracted a growing audience to her