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Bibliography

1 Chicago Tribune (Chicago) 29 October 1982.

2 Chicago Tribune (Chicago) 13 May 1974.

3 Chicago Tribune (Chicago) 31 October 1985.

4 Chicago Tribune (Chicago) 13 May 1974.

5 Michael Norman and Beth Scott, Haunted Heartland: True Ghost Stories from the American Midwest (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1985, 1992), 1.

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8 Troy Taylor, Haunted Illinois: Travel Guide to the History and Hauntings of the Prairie State (Alton: Whitechapel Productions Press, 2004), 336.

9 Rachel Brooks, Chicago Ghosts (Atglen: Schiffer Books, 2008), 41.

10 Kenan Heise, Resurrection Mary: a Ghost Story (Evanston: Chicago Historical Bookworks, 1990), 20.

11 Bielski, 17.

12 Chicago Tribune (Chicago) 2 July 1979.

13 Richard T. Crowe, Chicago’s Street Guide to the Supernatural (Oak Park: Carolando Press, 2000, 2001), 219.

14 Bielski, 22.

15 Michael McCarty and Connie Corcoran Wilson, Ghostly Tales of Route 66: from Chicago to Oklahoma (Wever: Quixote Press, 2008), 18.

16 Bielski, 15.

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20 Bielski, 23.

21 Brunvand, 232.

22 Crowe, 223.

23 Taylor, 339; Lewis and Fisk, 111; Brooks, 49.

24 Crowe, 190.