ALSIP, Ill. - The final resting place of Emmett Till could become a nationally registered historic place.

What we know:

The Burr Oak Cemetery Historic District, which is known as the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, along with singer Dinah Washington, and rapper King Von, has been recommended for the National Register of Historic Places by the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council.

The Alsip cemetery was established in 1927 on a 40-acre piece of land at the corner of 127th Street and Kostner Avenue. Currently, the property is 150 acres with an estimated 33,000 marked graves, including Emmett Till's flat bronze headstone in the Maple Wood section.

Till was a 14-year-old Black teen whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 is believed to have been a catalyst event for the C

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