Burr Oak Cemetery grave desecration

An unknown number of graves have been dug up in the historic cemetery over the last several years and the bodies dumped in the rear of the burial ground so the graves could be resold by the cemetery management. Blues music legend Willie Dixon and civil rights figure Emmett Till are among those buried in the suburban Chicago cemetery.
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Water collects near the grave of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery. Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy who was kidnapped and murdered in 1955 in Money, Miss., was accused of whistling at a white woman. Till's death helped bring national attention to the brutality of segregation.

Emmett Till

(Tribune photo by David Pierini / May 7, 2009)

Water collects near the grave of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery. Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy who was kidnapped and murdered in 1955 in Money, Miss., was accused of whistling at a white woman. Till's death helped bring national attention to the brutality of segregation.