What nightmare happend at Burr Oaks Cemetery?
Every family’s nightmare: Burr Oak Cemetery graves allegedly stripped for profit R.I.P SHATTERED | Manger, three gravediggers charged in scheme At one time, Burr Oak Cemetery was the only place black Chicagoans were sure they could bury their dead. But on Wednesday, the historic African-American cemetery became the site of a horror story. As many as 100 human bodies — someone’s grandfather, grandmother, father, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew cousin or friend — were removed from their graves and the plots resold. The manager of Burr Oak Cemetery and three gravediggers were charged this morning, accused of scheming to dig up gravesites and resell them. The four were expected to be in court this morning. The sheriff’s office says caskets and remains were removed more than 100 graves and piled up in an unused area of the graveyard over several years. “All of us who were working on this for the last week were pretty distraught,” Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told me. “You start wi
