Authorities plan to give the public access to a searchable online database of nearly 100,000 graves at the historic black cemetery where four people are accused of digging up graves to resell the plots.
The database may be available later this week according to Cook County Sheriff's office. The database was created using existing records from Burr Oak Cemetery and county death certificates.
Burr Oak is the burial place of civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till and several other prominent African-Americans. I
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