Bowen Country Club (BCC)

In 1912, Jane Addams and Mrs. Louse DeKoven Bowen purchased the 72-acre site on the north end of Waukegan, IL, to add to the recently completed thirteen-building Hull House complex. Jane Addams, who had become one of the premier sociologists of her day (symbolic interactionism), recognized the potential of a summer camp that could provide a meaningful change of environment for the inner-city dwellers that made up “The Hull House Neighborhood.”