Jane Addams - Nobel Peace Prize winner, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and head in woman suffrage and world peace

Jane Addams was the primary American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer declaration worker and founder of, Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher , sociologist, author, and head in woman suffrage and world peace. She was the most famous woman of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the requirements of children, public health and world peace. She emphasize that women have a special duty to clean up their communities and make them better places to live, arguing they wanted the vote to be effective. Addams became a role model for middle class women who volunteered to uplift their community.

She is increasingly being known as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. Throughout her life Addams was close to several women and was very good at eliciting the participation of women from different classes in Hull House's program. Her closest adult companion and friend was Ellen Gates Starr, who sustain Addams's work at Hull House, and with whom she mutual a romantic friendship. Together they possess a summer house in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 2007, a combined resolution of the Illinois General Assembly renamed the Northwest Tollway as the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway. Jane Addams House is a residence hall construct in 1947, at Connecticut College.

Date Of Birth	September 6, 1860
Place Of Birth	Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	a social and political activist, an author and lecturer, a community organizer, a public intellectual
Parents	John H. Addams, Sarah Weber
Date Of Died	May 21, 1935
Place Of Died	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.