Westlawn Cemetery

Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Norridge, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois. The cemetery covers  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.)New York Times-June 1, 1995www.history.co.uk-this-day-in-history/November-22 
Abe Saperstein, creator of the Savoy Big Five, precursor of the Harlem Globetrotters
Shel Silverstein, poet, author, satirist, and cartoonist
Gene Siskel, movie critic

References

Category:Cemeteries in the United States
Category:1937 establishments in the United States
Category:1930s establishments in Illinois