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Scandal-Plagued Cemetery Gets A Brand-New Makeover

Five years after the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal broke, dignity has returned to the south suburban Chicago cemetery. In August 2009, investigators made a gruesome discovery of dilapidated gravesites, missing bodies and bodies being double stacked in some graves as part of a scheme to have more available plots to sell. A number of cemetery employees ended up charged in the scandal. But now new leadership and a new monument mark change in the once scandal-ridden cemetery.