Burr Oak Burial Plots

Burr Oak Cemetery Reopening, Tickets Required To Visit Graves

AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago


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...

Identifying The Thousands Of 'Jumbled Bones' At Burr Oak Cemetery Nearly Impossible: Experts

AP | RUPA SHENOY | Posted 08.16.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — Human remains strewn amid overgrown weeds have deteriorated into jumbled bones. Paper records in a rusted metal cabinet have dissolved...

Nearly 100 Bodies Dug Up, Burial Plots Resold At Burr Oak Cemetery: Police

AP | Posted 08.08.2009 | Chicago


ALSIP, Ill. — Workers at a historic Illinois cemetery may have dug up more than 100 bodies and dumped them in mass graves at the back of the 150...