Hull House, the Chicago social-services agency founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams to provide education and recreation for the city’s poor and immigrant communities, will shut down this spring, reports the Associated Press.

Announcing the closure Thursday, the Jane Addams Hull House Association’s board said the charity could not maintain operations in an economic climate that has raised demand for its programs while putting a damper on donations.

Opened in 1889 by Ms. Adams, Hull House was the best known of the settlement houses that dotted the country in the early 1900s. Over the years, it grew into a charity that served 60,000 people a year in hundreds of Chicago-area sites, offering job training, child care, housing assistance, counseling for battered women, and other social services.

The organization plans to file for bankruptcy protection in the coming weeks and is in talks with another Chicago agency, Metropolitan Family Services, to take over its programs.