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 ...

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 ...

Does your oak tree have brown leaves? If it is a Bur Oak tree, then it may be affected by Bur Oak Blight. The Extension office has seen several pictures over the last couple of weeks of Bur Oak Blight ...

ALSIP, Ill. (WLS) -- The Friends of Burr Oak group gathered at Burr Oak Cemetery on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of a grave-selling scheme that was exposed in Alsip, Ill. Four cemetery ...

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 ...

The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

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 ...

Growing up on Ebinger Drive in Niles, Tony Dati remembers playing in the shade of his neighbor’s towering bur oak tree, its enormous trunk wider than any other tree in the neighborhood. “You think ...

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 ...

Eight years ago, private operator Xanterra Travel Collection (formerly Xanterra Parks & Resorts) opted not to renew its contract with the state to operate Burr Oak, saying it was losing money on the ...

This large bur oak is being protected by developers as they are building new houses and apartments near Harrodsburg Road and Military Pike. The tree is thought to be more than 300 years old.