ALSIP, Ill. - Authorities Thursday sharply increased the estimate of the number of bodies disinterred at Burr Oak Cemetery in a suburb of Chicago in a scheme to illegally resell grave sites. Two hundred to 300 bodies were dug up and ...Read More
Fewer than 300 family members visited scandal-plagued Burr Oak Cemetery as it finally reopened after four months Thursday -- far fewer than the thousands authorities had prepared for. Clutching computer printouts detailing the locations of their loved ones' graves, a slow ...Read More
ALSIP, Ill. -A Chicago-area cemetery that was shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots is open again. Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip reopened Thursday morning. People boarded a bus ...Read More
They're back? Sneed hears the company that owns Burr Oak cemetery is poised to take back control of the beleaguered graveyard today because of bankruptcy rules. That means Roman Szabelski, the Catholic Cemeteries executive director put in charge of Burr Oak ...Read More
Cook County Sheriff's police are investigating yet another case of human remains found at a south suburban cemetery after a bone was discovered in a storage area Friday morning. Earlier this week, three people sued the cemetery, accusing it of the ...Read More
The White House, correcting earlier reports, says Michelle Obama's father is not buried at a cemetery where workers are accused of digging up and dumping bodies but at a cemetery nearby. Spokeswoman Camille Johnston in an e-mail message on Tuesday said ...Read More
ALSIP, Ill. - First lady Michelle Obama's father is among those buried at a cemetery near Chicago where workers are accused of digging up and dumping bodies to resell plots, the White House confirmed Tuesday. "I can confirm the First Lady's ...Read More
CHICAGO (AP) - When his mother put the battered body of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the ground more than 50 years ago, it was supposed to be the end of a sad saga for the boy whose lynching became a ...Read More
Investigators said Saturday two key maps are missing at Burr Oak Cemetery: one for the second swath of the graveyard where human remains have been found and another for a section where infants were buried, described in office documents as ...Read More
ALSIP, Ill., July 11 (UPI) -- The entire Chicago-area cemetery where employees allegedly violated graves has been declared a crime scene, police said Saturday.The move means family members and the news media will be barred from Burr Oak Cemetery for ...Read More
ALSIP, Illinois (CNN) -- A Cook County cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold has been declared a crime scene, meaning that relatives of people believed buried there will not be allowed to visit for several ...Read More
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say more than a dozen more cases of disturbed graves have turned up at a historic black cemetery in Illinois where four people are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses in a scheme to resell ...Read More
ALSIP, Ill. — Relatives of the deceased have been flocking to historic Burr Oak Cemetery in the southern Chicago suburb of Alsip, where three gravediggers and a cemetery manager are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses in an elaborate scheme ...Read More
ALSIP, Ill. - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the ...Read More
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four Chicago-area cemetery workers have been charged with allegedly digging up graves and dumping the remains so the burial plots could be resold, prosecutors said on Thursday. The Burr Oak Cemetery in suburban Alsip is the burial site ...Read More
Five employees of the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip were taken into custody Wednesday after authorities learned numerous bodies had been dug up and the grave sites were illegally resold, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said. Detectives discovered a pile ...Read More
Is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” one of your favorite films? Got $2.3 million to spend? If your answer to both is yes, then you may be in luck. The steel-and-glass home featured in the 1986 pop classic starring Matthew Broderick ...Read More
