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 buria...
ABC 7 | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
A day after the task force put together by Governor Pat Quinn to investigate what happened at Burr Oak Cemetery released recommendations for more stat...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.31.2009 | Chicago
ALSIP, Ill. — Skeletal remains of a man wearing a suit and tie were found sitting in a burial vault with no casket in sight at a historic black ...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.21.2009 | Chicago
ALSIP, Ill. — Willie Esper was just trying to get better at his job as a gravedigger when he unearthed a scandal. Loose bones kept turning up a...
AP | Posted 08.21.2009 | Chicago
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities plan to give the public access to a searchable online database of nearly 100,000 graves at the historic black cemetery...
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 08.09.2009 | Chicago
ALSIP, Ill. — (AP) Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dump...
AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago