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Jane Addams is best known for her efforts to further humanitarian reform and for founding Hull-House in 1889, a settlement house that grew to a complex of thirteen buildings covering an entire city block on the location that is now the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Her work with people of other nationalities, particularly Greeks, Italians, Russians, and Germans, in the Nineteenth Ward in Chicago is chronicled in two autobiographies, Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes (1910) and The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a Record of Growing World Consciousness (1930). She became an effective advocate at the local, state, and federal levels for issues such as better labor conditions, sanitary standards for food and water, educational reform, recreational facilities for urban youth, and women's suffrage. In 1908 she was named the "First American Woman" by Ladies' Home Journal, which at the time had a circulation of more than one million readers.
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