Museum will preserve stories of public housing residents: ‘You don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you came from’

A rendering of the National Public Housing Museum. Ground was broken Tuesday on the West Side project, which will be housed in the last remaining original building of the Jane Addams Homes, a public housing complex built in the 1930s. (Provided)

The Hatch siblings returned Tuesday to the place where they grew up: the Jane Addams Homes, one of Chicago’s first public housing projects.

Joan, Anna, Jennie and Rev. Marshall Hatch weren’t just there to reminisce. They were celebrating the fact that their stories, along with those of other Jane Addams residents and from public housing projects nationwide, will be preserved at the National Public Housing Museum.