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CHICAGO (WBBM) - A Northwestern University researcher knows--literally--where all the bodies are buried in Lincoln Park and she's telling.
WBBM's Regine Schlesinger explains.
Northwestern art professor Pamela Bannos was intrigued by the Couch Tomb that remains in Lincoln Park so she began researching its history.
It turns out that before becoming a public park, the land was the Chicago City Cemetery, housing some 35,000 graves.
After Abraham Lincoln's 1865 assasination when the land was converted into a park named for him, the bodies were supposed to be removed by the families, but, thousands remained buried.
The result, there still are thousands of bodies beneath the Lincoln Park Zoo and the baseball fields where Chicagoans play every summer.
With permission from the Chicago Park District, next week, Bannos will place six markers through the park explaining some of its history as a graveyard and she's launching a Web page with her findings.
On the Net: http://hiddentruths.northwestern.edu/
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