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High School drop Outs in Chicago
by John Whitfield Friday, Dec. 28, 2001 at 11:09 PM
JWhitfi894@aol.com 773-890-4805 3641 S. Wolcott Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60609

Michael Jordon and the chicago Bulls did much to change the Al Capone image of "gangster" Chicago of long ago. but is the "windy city" now back peddling with Chicago leading the USA in murders this year, though it is not nearly the largest city in the USA?

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by John Saturday, Dec. 29, 2001 at 11:12 PM
JWhitfi894@aol.com

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Schreiber, D.(1967) Profile of the school dropout: A reader on America’s major educational problem. New York: Random House.














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