The Alsip cemetery is the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, rapper King Von, singer Dinah Washington and ...

The Burr Oak Cemetery Historic District, which is known as the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, along with singer Dinah Washington, and rapper King Von, has been recommended for the ...

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (WLS) -- An FBI agent testified told jurors that 1,500 bone fragments were found at Burr Oak Cemetery. Keith and Terrence Nicks are accused of desecrating graves and bodies in a ...

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Unlike situations in which names and identities of potential victims can be compared with DNA samples, records at Burr Oak were in such disarray that authorities don't know who was buried there, said ...

Edward Boone, founder of Friends of Burr Oak Cemetery, discusses plans to preserve the historic suburban Chicago burial ...

ALSIP, Ill. (AP) — Shirley Jackson prowled around the Burr Oak cemetery on a humid Wednesday morning, poking sunken headstones and wiping back grass covering about a dozen of them in search of her ...

ALSIP, Ill. (WLS) -- Remains and other items recovered during the Burr Oak Cemetery investigation were reburied Tuesday. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart organized the ceremony. Between 2003 and 2009, ...

CHICAGO | A Cook County judge has appointed a veteran cemetery director to run everyday operations at Burr Oak Cemetery, where an investigation continues into a grave desecration and moneymaking ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Four workers accused of digging up corpses at a historic Chicago-area as part of a scheme to resell plots have been indicted on a host of felony charges, including desecration of human ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Gruesome desecration scandal was discovered last summer at historic Chicago graveyard.