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State's First Cemetery Oversight Board Appointed
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois' first-ever cemetery oversight board has been appointed and will meet for the first time on Wednesday.

The board is among the safeguards recently enacted into law to protect the public from deceptive and unfair practices by cemeteries. The law was prompted by troubles at Burr Oak Cemetery in suburban Chicago, a historic black cemetery where former workers allegedly dug up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots.

The board includes cemetery owner Willie Carter, cemetery manager David Evans, cemetery executive director LuAnn Johnson, retired activist Zenobia Johnson-Black, health policy advocate Patrick Keenan-Devlin, cemetery executive director Roman Szabelski, cemetery manager Gregory Vogele and DuSable Museum President Antoinette Wright.

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03 01 10 by Newsroom
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