In addition to providing basic healthcare services, Hull House offered residents of the west side of Chicago English-language lessons, citizenship classes, and educational lectures. These offerings included classes in home economics such as cooking, hygiene, and household management, emphasizing mothers’ responsibilities to ensure that their families ate nutritious meals. The mostly middle-class, college-educated white women who worked at Hull House believed that if poor mothers learned to “properly” manage their households and family diets, they could feed their families healthier meals for less.