tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6822186340307717286.post5611455439323029078..comments2016-07-28T13:58:51.888-05:00Comments on Chicagoland Cemeteries: Cemetery Oversight Act in IllinoisJuliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09699560976080566224noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6822186340307717286.post-59427359359865496382010-06-19T09:14:16.504-05:002010-06-19T09:14:16.504-05:00I've heard and read about this law with great ...I've heard and read about this law with great interest, but I have seen too many instances of cemetery abuse near me to believe it will do any good. (The O'Hare St. Johannes example is not one of the examples -- those graves appear to be handled with kid gloves, with a plan for their perpetual care and respect in place, even those bodies unidentified and unmarked.)<br /><br />Hillside Cemetery (Elgin State Hospital) with mentally ill people, old people, and PTSD veterans) is being allowed to be recaptured by the surrounding woods, with stones allowed to sink into the ground and disappear.<br /><br />Schroeder Cemetery in Gilberts (thought to be the cemetery of the founder of Gilberts and his family) was sold in its entirety to a developer, who denies any bodies are there.<br /><br />Channing Cemetery in Elgin was "relocated" haphazardly in the 1940s to Bluff City, and hundreds of bodies remain unaccounted for and were left behind. They are disinterred during school building expansions (13 during the last one, 1998 I think) and not reburied. Even though this land is still populated with graves, Elgin plans on an expansion of the park with tennis courts, etc.<br /><br />I could go on -- about the piles of old tombstones at Prairie Cemetery, the completely overgrown Queen Anne Cemetery, etc.<br /><br />Focusing on the Alsip and O'Hare cases imply that cemeteries are generally well kept and sacrosanct from disturbance and development in Illinois, which isn't the case.Tracy St Clairehttp://www.biblerecords.comnoreply@blogger.com