Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery near Chicago, Illinois. The 2010 opening paragraph said at least 57 tombstones there were defaced with anti-Semitic slogans. Today the opening carries the word nowhere, though antisemitism survives once in the body. A reader today learns the cemetery's size and location, not that dozens of its tombstones were defaced with antisemitic slogans.
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Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Norridge , Illinois . Notable persons buried there include Jack Ruby , the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald ; film critic Gene Siskel ; Abe Saperstein , creator of the Savoy Big Five, which later became the Harlem Globetrotters ; Shel Silverstein (next to his parents), creative author and cartoonist who created " Where the Sidewalk Ends " and " The Giving Tree ," and Evelyn Wakely .1 The cemetery covers 72 acres (29 ha) and roughly 46,000 people are buried there. 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. If convicted of institutional vandalism, the alleged perpetrator faces up to 7 years in prison. He has been directly linked by police to a neo-Nazi organization in the Chicago area.2
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Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Norridge , Illinois . The cemetery covers 72 acres (29 ha) and roughly 46,000 people are buried there.
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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.
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Jewish cemetery in Cook County, Illinois For the cemetery in Canton, Ohio , see West Lawn 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. Westlawn Cemetery and Mausoleum .
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