At the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, it is common for visitors to report spiritual presences and hunt for ghosts in different rooms. Stories of ghost children running in the upstairs corridor and Hull-House’s resident Lady in White (said to haunt Jane Addams’ bedroom) abound. But none draws in visitors like the tale of the Devil Baby, a demonic infant who was supposedly brought to Hull-House by its horrified parents and locked away in the mansion’s attic by the famous social reformer Jane Addams. The reports of ghosts are not surprising considering the history of the neighborhood. During the American Industrial Revolution, waves of new immigrants moved into the…
