• IdentificationMSJPA_66
  • TitleJuvenile Protective Association records MSJPA_66
  • PublisherSpecial Collections
  • LanguageEnglish
  • RepositorySpecial Collections
  • Physical Description20.66 Linear feet
  • Date1897-1999
  • AbstractThe Juvenile Court Committee was established in Chicago in 1904 by women reformers five years after they organized for the Cook County Juvenile Court. The Juvenile Court Committee offered aid to dependent and delinquent children during the period before the Juvenile Court itself was able to take up their cases. The Juvenile Protective Association Papers consists of approximately 12 linear feet divided into nine series spanning the entire twentieth century.
  • Origination
    • Adelsperger, Robert J.
    • Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago.

Old Resource ID was JPA

The Juvenile Court Committee was established in Chicago in 1904 by women reformers five years after they organized for the Cook County Juvenile Court. The Juvenile Court Committee offered aid to dependent and delinquent children during the period before the Juvenile Court itself was able to take up their cases. The committee's primary activities initially involved raising funds to pay probation offices and maintaining a detention home, but the founders believed that prevention should also be a priority. By 1907 when the probation and detention officers were re-classified as civil servants of the county the Committee was able to take up preventative work. The Committee organized branches throughout Cook County which cooperated with child welfare agencies including the Juvenile Court, Compulsory Education Department, and State Factory Inspector. The Committee also targeted for prosecution those it considered to be contributors to children's truancy, delinquency, and dependency, and the organization also supported the reform movement for the establishment of vacation schools, parks, playgrounds, gymnasiums, social centers, and baths. The Committee's investigations led to child labor legislation, prohibition on alcohol to protect minors, investigations of baby farms, exposes of illicit street trades and prostitution. In 1909, the group's name was changed to the Juvenile Protective Association.

The Juvenile Protective Association Papers consists of approximately 12 linear feet divided into nine series spanning the entire twentieth century. Series I through IV are arranged alphabetically. Series V is chronological. These materials consists of correspondence, reports, lists, statistics, clippings, programs, pamphlets, by-laws, speeches, minutes, notes, memoranda, photos, bulletins, and legislative bills.

Juvenile Protective Association records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Names
    • Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.).
    • Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.).
    • Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago. -- Archives
  • Subject
    • Child labor.
    • Child welfare.
    • Juvenile corrections.
    • Juvenile delinquency.
    • Midwest Women's History.
    • Social conditions.
  • Geographic Coverage
    • Illinois--Chicago.
    • Illinois--Cook County.