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Homewood Memorial Gardens

Homewood Memorial Gardens

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Homewood Memorial Gardens is a privately-owned cemetery in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois. Many other unrelated cemeteries share variations of this name. This site may have formerly been called Oak Lawn Cemetery.

Not to be confused with Homewood Cemetery.
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Potters' Field

The cemetery has long served as Cook County's potter's field, providing interment for indigents and unclaimed bodies. Press reports in 2011 speculated the cemetery might have as many as eight thousand such bodies, many in mass graves.[1]

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    Johnson, Clara (February 18, 2011). "Poor stacked in mass graves at Illinois cemetery". St Louis Post-Dispatch. Associated Press. Retrieved October 25, 2018.

41.5658°N 87.6289°W / 41.5658; -87.6289
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