Nearly 16 years after a scandal rocked a Chicago-area cemetery, a ceremony hosted by Friends of Burr Oak Cemetery unveiled a new name for the memorial.
In 2009, the cemetery became the site of Cook County’s largest crime scene when four employees were accused of digging up gravesites to resell the plots.
“It was very hard to see and to work through. And still to this day, it’s difficult,” Cook County Sheriff’s Commander Jason Moran said. “It was difficult to understand how this could happen.”…