{"id":17084,"date":"2015-07-30T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=17084"},"modified":"2015-07-30T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T16:25:58","slug":"oak-park-ave-construction-may-unearth-indigent-graves-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/oak-park-ave-construction-may-unearth-indigent-graves-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak Park Ave construction may unearth indigent graves (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Angela G. Barnes and Anne Arntson<\/p>\n<p>A major street in the Dunning neighborhood\u00a0is getting a face-lift, but the city may have a hundred-year-old burial problem.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cookcountycemetery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Fleig<\/a>, a historian who&#8217;s chronicled the mishandling of bodies on the Northwest Side, the upgrade may disturb indigent graves.<\/p>\n<p>This reconstruction project was suppose to start in June, but city officials say they want to explore the area first because records show bodies were once buried there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Oak Park Construction May Unearth Indigent Graves\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/134452652?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: The old Cook County Poorhouse cemetery underneath the Oak Park Ave Construction site. (Angela G. 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