How A Downstate Businessman Rescued A Crumbling Jewish Cemetery On The South Side

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Original Load Date Sept. 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
Last Updated Sept. 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
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AUBURN GRESHAM — When 83-year-old Robert Libman was a boy, he remembers helping take care of his relatives’ gravesites in a small section of the [ 184-acre ][108] Oak Woods Cemetery in Greater Grand Crossing. That section on the south end of the cemetery included graves of Jews from around the Chic...