Westlawn Cemetery
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Notable interments
- Leonard S. Chess, record company executive[1]
- Virginia Lee Corbin, actress
- Sandy Dvore, artist
- Mike Nussbaum, actor
- Susan Nussbaum, actress and playwright
- 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[2]
(His conviction was later reversed. He died awaiting a new trial, still legally presumed innocent.)[3][4] - Abe Saperstein, creator of the Savoy Big Five, precursor of the Harlem Globetrotters[5]
- Harry Sawyer, Jewish-American organized crime boss based in the Twin Cities, co-conspirator and protector of the Dillinger and Barker-Karpis Gangs.[6]
- Shel Silverstein, poet, author, satirist, and cartoonist[7]
- Gene Siskel, film critic[8]
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 and he was a member of the National Socialist Movement. He was convicted on two charges of felony vandalism and sentenced to 7 years in prison, the maximum sentence.[9][10]
References
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External links
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- Google Maps view of the cemetery