Burr Oaks Cemetery News
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Burr Oak Cemetery reopens four months after scandal
10:54 AM on 11/20/2009
ALSIP, Illinois (AP) - A historic black cemetery, shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots, is open again...
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Blacks lament cemetery scandal's effect on history
9:07 AM on 08/02/2009
Harold Lucas was raised with the stories about his grandparents, who rode segregated railroad cars from Missouri to Chicago in the 1930s and worked tirelessly to raise their family into the middle class...
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Cemetery desecration unearths mother's pain
8:04 AM on 07/29/2009
Before this month, Jacqui Abrams had visited Burr Oak Cemetery only nine times -- once for each of her relatives buried at the historic black graveyard in suburban Chicago.
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Investigation digs deeper at historic Chicago cemetery
10:00 AM on 07/22/2009
The investigation of the Burr Oak Cemetery in Cook County, Illinois outside Chicago is continuing and the FBI says they're turning up even more unsettling evidence...
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Cemetery owner denies involvement in desecration
1:50 PM on 07/15/2009
The owner of a suburban Chicago cemetery that's been closed by authorities amid allegations that workers dug up bodies and resold plots says he had nothing to do with the alleged wrongdoing.
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Investigation begins at historic black cemetery
12:43 PM on 07/14/2009
The grisly work of the investigation is getting under way at a historic African-American cemetery as an FBI forensic team starts combing the most northern section of its grounds for unearthed remains. One of Chicago's first African-American cemeteries, Burr Oaks, was the resting place of many important historical figures, including...
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