Westlawn 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.
Notable burials
- 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
(His conviction was later reversed. He died awaiting a new trial, still legally presumed innocent.)[1][2] - Abe Saperstein, creator of the Savoy Big Five, precursor of the Harlem Globetrotters
- Shel Silverstein, poet, author, satirist, and cartoonist
- Gene Siskel, movie critic
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