Homewood Memorial Gardens is a privately-owned cemetery in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois.
This site may have formerly been called Oak Lawn Cemetery.
The cemetery has long served as Cook County's potter's field, providing interment for indigents and unclaimed bodies.
Press reports in 2011 speculated the cemetery might have as many as eight thousand such bodies, many in mass graves.
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