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 ...

A small group including friends and family of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, gathered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...