My earlier source had a typo. The cemetery was associated with Congregation Kehilath Jacob Anshe Drohiczen, not "Keheleth." Apparently, Benny Goodman was a member. Here's a new link, with pic: http://www.graveyards.com/bin/grave?id=18 Someone said there was an article about it in the Chicago Reader a few months back, but I haven't been able to track it down.
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There's a small Christian cemetery nearby on the west side of Shermer Rd. almost across the street from the Shermer-side access to the strip of land I'm talking about. It's also old, but still well-maintained. I'd bet this is the cemetery on Waukegan near Dempster that was referred to in that interview you saw. And maybe most of the descendents had reinterred their loved ones, leaving those wi
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The fenced-off area is a strip of land running west-east between Shermer and Waukegan south of Dempster and just north of Main Street. (In landmark terms, south of Classic Bowl, north of Lavitt Animal Hospital (which both have Morton Grove addresses) and west of that nursing home on the peninsula where Caldwell meets Waukegan.) The original entrance was on the Waukegan side. Here's the exact sp
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Anyone know the legal status of the old, abandoned Jewish cemetery near the intersection of Waukegan and Shermer? Growing up in Niles in the '70s, my friends and I used to play in the "old cemetery." There were overturned headstones among the overgrown weeds and empty beer cans. The inscriptions were mostly in Hebrew, but some of the death dates were pre-1900 if I recall. Many tombston
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There's a wall ad that was uncovered during demolition of a building at Randolph east of Franklin. All I can read is "Window Shades"
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