The Illinois Department of Transportation will move human remains left behind during a 1960s cemetery relocation and erect a monument to Black and poor people buried in the vicinity.
The Illinois Department of Transportation will move human remains left behind during a 1960s cemetery relocation, erect a monument to Black and poor people buried in the vicinity and include a pedestrian sidewalk and shoulder space for bicycles on the new Illinois 111 bridge.
Thousands of graves were supposed to be relocated in the late 1960s to make way for interstate construction, but some bones apparently were left behind, according to IDOT officials.