Westlawn Cemetery

For the cemetery in Canton, Ohio, see West Lawn Cemetery.
Westlawn Cemetery
Details
Established 1937 (1937)[1]
Location Norridge, Illinois
Country United States
Coordinates 41°57′28″N 87°49′38″W / 41.95778°N 87.82722°W / 41.95778; -87.82722[2]Coordinates: 41°57′28″N 87°49′38″W / 41.95778°N 87.82722°W / 41.95778; -87.82722[3]
Type Public
Style Jewish cemetery
Size 72 acres (29 ha)
Number of interments 49,000[1]
Website westlawncemetery.org

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 interments

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.[6] He was convicted and sentenced to 7 years in prison.[7]

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