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445:Local Community Fact Book of Chicago
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107:Local Community Fact Book of Chicago
672:The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly
643:The Journal of Educational Research
521:Bernice Goodsitt (September 1958),
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141:(J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1973)
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757:The Journal of Risk and Insurance
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627:Elizabeth Cosstick (April 1959),
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281:Hagerty, James R. (2021-05-20).
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