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* [[Leonard S. Chess]], record company executive<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #2289|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref>
* [[Leonard S. Chess]], record company executive<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #2289|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref>
* [[Virginia Lee Corbin]], actress
* [[Virginia Lee Corbin]], actress
* [[Sandy Dvore]]
* [[Sandy Dvore]], artist
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* [[Richard Elrod]], jurist, sheriff, and legislator
* [[Jack Ruby]], convicted of the murder of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], who at the time was under arrest for the assassination of US President [[John F. Kennedy]]<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #11021|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref><br>(His conviction was later reversed. He died awaiting a new trial, still ''legally'' presumed innocent.)<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/01/us/phil-burleson-61-jack-ruby-s-lawyer.html New York Times]-June 1, 1995</ref><ref>[http://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/November-22 www.history.co.uk]-this-day-in-history/November-22</ref>
* [[Jack Ruby]], convicted of the murder of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], who at the time was under arrest for the assassination of US President [[John F. Kennedy]]<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #11021|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref><br>(His conviction was later reversed. He died awaiting a new trial, still ''legally'' presumed innocent.)<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/01/us/phil-burleson-61-jack-ruby-s-lawyer.html New York Times]-June 1, 1995</ref><ref>[http://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/November-22 www.history.co.uk]-this-day-in-history/November-22</ref>
* [[Abe Saperstein]], creator of the Savoy Big Five, precursor of the [[Harlem Globetrotters]]<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #11201|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref>
* [[Abe Saperstein]], creator of the Savoy Big Five, precursor of the [[Harlem Globetrotters]]<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #11201|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref>
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* [[Shel Silverstein]], poet, author, satirist, and cartoonist<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #11695|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref>
* [[Shel Silverstein]], poet, author, satirist, and cartoonist<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #11695|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref>
* [[Gene Siskel]], film critic<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #11741|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref>
* [[Gene Siskel]], film critic<ref>{{cite book|url=|at= #11741|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}</ref>
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*[[Richard Elrod]], an American jurist, sheriff, and legislator


==Vandalism==
==Vandalism==
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[[Category:Jews and Judaism in Chicago]]
[[Category:Jews and Judaism in Chicago]]
[[Category:Cemetery vandalism and desecration]]
[[Category:Cemetery vandalism and desecration]]


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Revision as of 16:52, 20 February 2023

For the cemetery in Canton, Ohio, see West Lawn Cemetery.
Westlawn Cemetery
Map
Details
Established1937 (1937)[1]
Location
Norridge, Illinois
CountryUnited States
Coordinates41°57′28″N 87°49′38″W / 41.95778°N 87.82722°W / 41.95778; -87.82722[2]
TypePublic
StyleJewish cemetery
Size72 acres (29 ha)
No. of interments49,000[1]
WebsiteOfficial website
Find a GraveWestlawn Cemetery

Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Norridge, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois. The cemetery covers 72 acres (29 ha) and roughly 46,000 people are buried there.

Notable interments

Vandalism

Westlawn was the site of gravestone desecration in January 2008. At least 57 tombstones were defaced with anti-Semitic slogans. Using white and blue spray paint, the vandal drew swastikas and slurs on tombstones in a western section of the cemetery. A 21-year-old Polish immigrant male was charged with the crime in February 2008. He has been directly linked by police to a neo-Nazi organization in the Chicago area.[11] He was convicted on two charges of felony vandalism and sentenced to 7 years in prison, the maximum sentence.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "About". westlawncemetery.org. Lakeshore Jewish Funerals, Inc. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Westlawn Jewish Cemetery". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Co. #2289. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
  4. ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Co. #11021. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
  5. ^ New York Times-June 1, 1995
  6. ^ www.history.co.uk-this-day-in-history/November-22
  7. ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Co. #11201. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
  8. ^ Paul Maccabee (1993), John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crook's Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936, Minnesota Historical Society Press. Pages 284-285.
  9. ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Co. #11695. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
  10. ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Co. #11741. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
  11. ^ "Neo-Nazi Convicted Of Vandalizing Jewish Cemetery". 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  12. ^ "Neo-Nazi Mariusz Wdziekonski Gets Maximum Sentence For Defiling Jewish Graves". Huffington Post. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
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