Hull House & Its Neighborhood

Being that I live in "inner city Chicago" I had a little bit of previous knowledge of the ethnic make up of the area during this time. Also given the time period, I knew some things about wages and immigrants. The most surprising thing to me is how many different ethnicities live in this area.
This raises a few questions. How, if at all, did people get along with others outside of their group? Did this community have a genuine community feel? How did Jane Addams manage to bring these groups together? When in an environment full of people different from yourself I think it is natural to look for this are like you. This can be seen in the small ethic communities within the larger community. Although all Italians, for instance, don't live near one another, they live close to many other Italians. I believe that this has a lot to do with the fact that these were immigrants trying to establish a home away from home and what better way to do it than to live around those from your home. This way you have people around that share similar views, belief, language, etc. These smaller communities suggest that people really were not think about connecting or interacting with those around them that were different, they were content in their little circle.
Besides the fact that people of similar ethnicities live close to one another, the maps also showed a few patterns with wages. Overall, it seems that the people in this neighborhood are grouped more by ethnicity rather than wages, but there is some overlap. It appears that those who have similar wages live closer together (maps 1, 3 .4). As seen in map 1, where the ethnicities are more mixed so are the wages. This suggest that maybe earnings had something to do with ethnicity and the type of jobs one qualified based on that ethnicity. Within the maps we also see varying wages within nationalities. In these cases we see more of grouping by wage.
As we discussed in class the Hull House became the bridge between these many different groups of people. It connected ethicnities and classes. Rather than dismiss the differences present it embraced them as well as taught the neighborhood to embrace them and how to move beyond them. The House served the same purpose for all people no matter how different they were. It seems that this was the only public place where all could gather together. The House is where the communities became a community.