<P> According to Christie and Gauvreau (2001), while the Christian settlement houses sought to Christianize, Jane Addams, "had come to epitomize the force of secular humanism ." Her image was, however, "reinvented" by the Christian churches . According to the Jane Addams Hull - House Museum, "Some social settlements were linked to religious institutions . Others, like Hull - House (co-founded by Addams), were secular ." </P> <P> One of the first newspaper articles ever written about Hull House quotes the following invitation sent to the residents of the Hull House neighborhood . It begins with: "Mio Carissimo Amico"... and is signed, Le Signorine, Jane Addams and Ellen Starr . That invitation to the community, written during the first year of Hull House's existence, suggests that the inner core of what Addams labeled "The Hull House Neighborhood" was overwhelmingly Italian at that time . "10,000 Italians lived between the river and Halsted Street ." </P> <P> By all accounts, the greater Hull House neighborhood (Chicago's Near West Side) was a mix of various ethnic groups that had immigrated to Chicago . There was no discrimination of race, language, creed, or tradition for those who entered the doors of the Hull House . Every person was treated with respect . The Bethlehem - Howard Neighborhood Center records substantiate that, "Germans and Jews resided south of that inner core (south of twelfth street)... The Greek delta formed by Harrison, Halsted and Blue Island Streets served as a buffer to the Irish residing to the south and the Canadian--French to the northwest . From the river on the east end, on out to the western ends of what came to be known as "Little Italy", from Roosevelt Road on the south to the Harrison Street delta on the north, became the port - of - call for Italians who continued to immigrate to Chicago from the shores of southern Italy until a quota system was implemented in 1924 for most southern Europeans . </P> <P> The Greektown and Maxwell Street residents, along with the remnants of other immigrant groups living on the outer fringes of the Hull House Neighborhood, disappeared long before the physical demise of Hull House . The exodus of most ethnic groups began shortly after the turn of the twentieth century . Their businesses, e.g. Greektown and Maxwell Street, however, remained . Italian Americans were the only immigrant group that endured as a vibrant on - going community . That community came to be known as "Little Italy". Taylor Street's Little Italy, the inner core of Addams' "Hull House Neighborhood", remained as the laboratory upon which the social and philanthropic groups of Hull House elitists had tested their theories and formulated their challenges to the establishment . </P>

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