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 ...

Burr Oak Cemetery — the Black-owned south suburban cemetery that’s the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, singer Dinah Washington, rapper King Von and generations of other prominent figures ...

April 29, 2010 (CHICAGO) Dart called that move "insanity" and said he may try to declare the area a crime scene to prevent it. The sheriff says he is looking at his legal options to try to stop the ...

Records at the suburban Chicago cemetery where four people are accused of unearthing bodies in an alleged moneymaking scheme have been found disintegrating and rotting in a rusty file cabinet. Many of ...

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 scheme. Judge ...

The Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council voted to recommend the listing to the National Park Service, which would formally recognize Burr Oak as a site of national significance. For many Chicago ...

The owner of Burr Oak Cemetery, an Illinois burial ground that was embroiled in a grave-desecration scandal last year, is seeking more time to craft its creditor-repayment plan. In court papers Monday ...

July 08--Five years after workers were accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell burial plots, Burr Oak Cemetery is trying to overcome the scandal and reassume its ...

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 ...

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 ...

American history is full of macabre, if not downright horrific episodes of disturbing the dead. Think of all the Native American graves that have been dug up, pillaged, disrupted, in the long, often ...