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Families searching for their loved ones’ graves at Burr Oak Cemetery can search an online database for a photo of the headstone.

The Web site, www.burroak.net, was set up by the Cook County Sheriff’s Department for families fearing relatives’ graves are among about 300 believed to have been illegally disinterred and resold property.

So far, 10,000 photos have been added to the database. It can be searched by the deceased’s last name.

Source: www.chicagobreakingnews.com

A UPS shipping driver was shot and critically wounded in the West Englewood neighborhood Tuesday morning.
The shooting happened on the 6500 block of South Hermitage Avenue about 10 a.m., according to police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez.
The victim was a UPS driver, CBS 2 confirmed.
An armed robbery may have been committed, according to Perez.
The man was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis.
Police on the scene said the driver had made a delivery down the street and was logging something when he was shot in the back. Caution tape was wrapped around the UPS truck at the scene, next to a cloth with blood on it.

Chicago’s own Elgin Nathan James, described as in his 30s, was arrested in Los Angeles on Monday night on charges unsealed in Chicago, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

The indictment accused him of extorting $5,000 from an unnamed Chicago-based recording artist while he was on tour in late 2005 and early 2006.

James has described himself as the founder of FSU — a gang formed in Boston in the late 1990s, saying it would control the punk music scene.