Editing Jane Addams (section)

===Near west side neighborhood===
[[File:Polk street opposite Hull House.gif|thumb|Polk Street opposite Hull House. ''Source'' Addams: ''Twenty Years at Hull House'' (1910), p.95]]
[[File:South Halsted Street Opposite Hull House.gif|thumb|South Halsted Street opposite Hull House. ''Source'' Addams: ''Twenty Years at Hull House''. (1910), p. 96]]
The Hull House neighborhood was a mix of European ethnic groups that had immigrated to Chicago around the start of the 20th century. That mix was the ground where Hull House's inner social and philanthropic elitists tested their theories and challenged the establishment. The ethnic mix is recorded by the Bethlehem-Howard Neighborhood Center: "Germans and Jews resided south of that inner core (south of Twelfth Street) ... The Greek delta formed by Harrison, [[Halsted Street]], and Blue Island Streets served as a buffer to the Irish residing to the north and the French Canadians to the northwest."<ref name="hhm">Hull House Museum</ref> Italians resided within the inner core of the Hull House Neighborhood ... from the river on the east end, on out to the western ends of what came to be known as [[Little Italy, Chicago|Little Italy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.taylorstreetarchives.com |title=Stories from Chicago's Little Italy |publisher=Taylor Street Archives |access-date=April 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228234400/http://taylorstreetarchives.com/ |archive-date=December 28, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Greeks]] and Jews, along with the remnants of other immigrant groups, began their exodus from the neighborhood in the early 20th century. Only Italians continued as an intact and thriving community through the Great Depression, World War II, and well beyond the ultimate d three "ethical principles" for social settlements: "to teach by example, to practice cooperation, and to practice social democracy, that is, egalitarian, or democratic, social relations across class lines."<ref>Knight (2005) p. 182</ref> Thus Hull House offered a comprehensive program of civic, cultural, recreational, and educational activities and attracted admiring visitors from all over the world, including [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]], a graduate student from Harvard University who later became prime minister of Canada. In the 1890s [[Julia Lathrop]], [[Florence Kelley]], and other residents of the house made it a world center of social reform activity. Hull House used the latest methodology (pioneering in statistical mapping) to study overcrowding, truancy, typhoid fever, cocaine, children's reading, newsboys, infant mortality, and midwifery. Starting with efforts to improve the immediate neighborhood, the Hull House group became involved in city and statewide campaigns for better housing, improvements in public welfare, stricter child-labor laws, and protection of working women. Addams brought in prominent visitors from around the world and had close links with leading Chicago intellectuals and philanthropists. In 1912, she helped start the new [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]] and supported the presidential campaign of [[Theodore Roosevelt]].

"Addams' philosophy combined feminist sensibilities with an unwavering commitment to social improvement through cooperative efforts. Although she sympathized with feminists, socialists, and pacifists, Addams refused to be labeled. This refusal was pragmatic rather than ideological."<ref name=WWU>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/addams-jane/| title=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website| chapter=Jane Addams| publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University| year=2019}}</ref>