AAUW-Illinois, Inc.


Home

Board

Branches

Calendar

Giving

Jane Addams

Membership

Partnerships

Public Policy

Resources

Contact Us

Jane Addams

The first annual Jane Addams Day was celebrated December 10, 2007
with much fanfare around the state!

View a new Web site showcasing the December 10 Jane Addams luncheon at the Hull-House Museum. Read a poem written by Kevin Coval, the Poet in Residence at Hull-House , and view many photos of this historic luncheon.

Jane Addams

  Events

 

Among many achievements, Jane Addams was:

  • A founder and the first president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  • A founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
  • A founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • The first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

 

Film

Dinner at Jane's is a documentary film directed by Suzanne Lacy. It was shot at Chicago’s Hull-House Museum in September, 1993, during the centennial celebration of the Columbian Exposition.
Dinner at Jane's is not commercially available. You can only see it by making special arrangements with Jan Lisa Huttner, or attending one of the scheduled screenings.

Is your branch interested in viewing this film?
Read the flyer
for details and FAQs

Local screenings of the film

top


Events

Gail Borden Library, Elgin , A Tapestry of Freedom* presents

Jane Addams and the Potential of Women:
Her Growth as a Social Reformer

Tuesday, April 1, 7-8:30 p.m. , Community Rooms

Sponsored in collaboration with the Elgin Area branch of the AAUW

Louise W. Knight, author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy, will trace how Addams's early struggles with failure during an era of limited opportunities for women shaped her ideas about women's potential and her social reform activism. Refreshments will be served. Book sales and signing follow the program. Please register.

* Funding for this grant was awarded by the Illinois State Library (ISL), a Division of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

THREE WAYS TO REGISTER AT GAIL BORDEN LIBRARY:
(Registration will not be open until the end of February when the library's March/April newsletter is ready.)

More information about Louise Knight is available at louisewknight.com

top


Additional Resources
Jane Addams book

Ready to learn more about Jane Addams?

Books

Museums


Press Releases

Read articles and press releases regarding Jane Addams Day:

top


Jane Addams banner
 
Jane Addams Day
Linda Henning Cohen (President Elect), Kim Benziger (Immediate Past President & Chair of the Jane Addams Day Committee) & Jan Lisa Huttner (Director of International Relations) unfurl the new Jane Addams Day banner at the AAUW-Illinois Spring Convention in Bloomington.
(Photo by Sara Jerome)
 
District Five Director Ericka Nicketakis & Jan Lisa Huttner, Director of International Relations, help staff the Jane Addams Day display under the IWPA tent at Chicago's Printers Row Book Fair. The exhibit contained display copies of over a dozen books about Jane Addams for both adults & young people.
(Photo by Jennifer Rosenberg )

top


E-mail comments to: President Nancy Daugherty
Problems? Contact the webmaster
Contact Us | ©2006-2009 AAUW-IL, Inc.