Trib Connects Readers To Burr Oak Database

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Jul 31, 2009 5:40PM

In the wake of the Burr Oak Cemetery discovery, the Cook County Sheriff's office took to documenting all the graves with headstones to aid families searching for the resting place of their loved ones. So far 9,500 of the headstones have been documented and now the Trib is joining in, using the data to create a database with a few more user-friendly search options, including breaking the headstones down by decade. It's definitely worth a look. And in other Burr Oak news today, the Trib uncovered a 2005 police report that shows police saw human bones in plain sight at the cemetery but didn't explore the incident any further.