The Near West Side:
Immigration and the Industrial Revolution

The Five Themes of Geography
Jane Addams: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
Jane Adams began her social work at the Hull House in the Near West Side neighborhood.
Student Projects
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Institutions of the Neighborhood

Reference Materials

 

Speakers

The Haymarket Affair

The Hamymarket Square was the site of a major labor protest in the 1890s that resulted in a city-wide crackdown on labor and anarchists.

 

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