• Born in Cedarville, Illinois

• Enters Rockford Female Seminary

• Graduates from Rockford

• Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England

• Founds Hull-House, a social settlement in Chicago, with Ellen Gates Starr

• Helps found Chicago Federation of Settlements

• Becomes garbage inspector for 19th Ward, Near West Side

• Becomes vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League

• Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education

• Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  
• Elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later National Conference of Social Work)

• Mediator in Chicago Garment Workers' Strike
  
• Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House

• 1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association
  
• 1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers

• Seconds Theodore Roosevelt's nomination for President of the U.S. at Progressive Party convention in Chicago

• Speaks at the 7th Congress of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, Budapest, Hungary

• Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st chair
  
• Presides at International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands

• Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), serves as President 1919-29

• Helps found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women's Association, in Hawaii

• 1st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

• Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois
  
  

To learn more about Jane Addams and Hull-House:
Biography of Jane Addams
Near West Side Neighborhood Chronology

Suggestions for additional reading:
Works by Jane Addams
Works about Jane Addams
Works about Jane Addams For Young Readers
Works about Hull-House
Works about the Women of Hull-House