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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Illinois State Charities Commission, Annual Report, Crerar Ms 242, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
The Commission was created in 1909 to succeed the State Board of Commissioners of Public Charities. Dr. Frank Billings was president of the Commission.
Reports on committee expenditures and field investigations of Illinois orphanages, prisons, reform schools, poorhouses, and asylums.
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