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

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 ...

ALSIP, Ill. (CBS) – It's been one woman's tradition for more than two decades; paying respects at grandma's grave for her birthday. But this year, she says she was shocked at what she discovered ...

With several family members buried there, Tammy Gibson said she is very passionate about conditions at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip. Families with loved ones interred there “want to make sure they’re ...

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 ...

July 14, 2009 (ALSIP, Ill.) Tuesday, near his suburban Dallas home, Melvin Bryant said he also has family members buried in Burr Oak, and understands the historical importance of the cemetery. Also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...