The secret history of Lincoln Park’s cemetery

Nov. 10, 2012
Chicago’s toniest green space was once the final resting place for more than 35,000 Chicagoans – and may still be just that for as many as 12,000 people buried there between 1843 and 1866. 

Catholics to state: Take over cemetery

Apr. 16, 2012
Some Catholic leaders in Chicago are calling on state officials to take over a suburban cemetery where police investigators discovered 11 unburied bodies.The Evangelical Catholic Diocese of the Northwest issued a statement Sunday blasting Homewood Memorial Gardens Cemetery.Bishop James Alan Wilkowsk

Proposed state law: three caskets to one grave

Feb. 17, 2011
An Illinois lawmaker is pushing a bill that would allow cemeteries to bury some people three to a grave. State Rep.