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- ↑ "Development driver: Ilitches' move downtown started several balls rolling". Crain's Detroit Business. April 28, 2009.
- ↑ "Mayor-elect Dave Bing adds Freman Hendrix, Denise Ilitch, Joe Walsh to turnaround team". Crain's Detroit Business. May 6, 2009.
- ↑ "Ilitch, Deitch win University of Michigan regent seats". MLive. November 5, 2008.
- ↑ "Undergraduate tuition rate to rise by 5.6 percent". Michigan Daily. June 19, 2009.
- ↑ https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/08/24/university-of-michigan-regents-palestinian-activist-divest-israel-democratic-party-supreme-court/74862362007/
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