Bur Oak Secondary School in Markham has sent a letter home to parents after a 16-year-old girl was bitten by a coyote in the ...

A former backhoe operator at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery was sentenced to three years probation Friday for desecrating bodies and removing skeletal remains to sell more graves to unsuspecting ...

ALSIP, Ill. (WLS) -- Friday marks a new day for Burr Oak Cemetery, after the historic burial site became the focus of scandal in 2009. The Cook County Sheriff's Department discovered that graves were ...

Officials found hundreds of desecrated graves and human remains piled at the far end of Burr Oak Cemetery outside Chicago. Chicago Times columnist Dawn Turner Trice has relatives there. She's trying ...

BURR OAK -- With a two-year history as its foundation, the Burr Oak Heritage Days celebration is establishing its niche in St. Joseph County's community festival circuit. Organizers of the third ...

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 ...