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Offline rashore

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Legal info about places like BG....
« on: November 06, 2009, 11:03:26 AM »
Hey there folks:)

Found a couple of rather nice bits of legal information about places like BG and thought it would be nice to share....

Illinois Historic Cemetery Preservation Handbook, A guide to basic preservation:
http://www.illinoishistory.gov/Cemetery ... s_9-09.pdf

Stones and Statues: Laws Governing Illinois Cemeteries:
http://www.illinoishistory.gov/Cemetery ... atutes.pdf

The most recent copy (that I have) of the Chicago Park district laws:
http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/docs ... pter07.pdf

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Re: Legal info about places like BG....
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2009, 11:11:11 AM »
Wow, it's funny you posted the info from the state of Illinois' website. Those PDFs are a part of a future update to the GRP web site :)

One reason for adding them, for example, is that some people have been trying to clean the headstones out at BGC and at times in the wrong fashion. Their hearts are in the right place but there also needs to be a way to let them know that if they are going to take it upon themselves then they should try to do it the proper way.

Thanks for getting it started on the forum though! I'm glad that others are looking into it!


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Re: Legal info about places like BG....
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2009, 11:37:02 AM »
Quote from: "rashore"

The most recent copy (that I have) of the Chicago Park district laws:
http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/docs ... pter07.pdf

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But the Chicago Park District information wouldn't apply for BGC.

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Re: Legal info about places like BG....
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2009, 10:37:58 PM »
I wasn't sure if BG was outside the Chicago Parks jurisdiction or not... Still enough of a cheesehead to be fuzzy on Chicago borders, lol.  But it does have some excellent information on what the definitions of what park stuff is, and do's and don'ts of park behavior... I'm pretty sure that most of that kind of thing is applicable (with a grain of common sense) across the board in most public park-like land. I tried to find a Cook County Forest one, but came up with a bit of a nil, maybe looking in the wrong places. Cook County Forest does have it's own official website now though, and through it one can volunteer for clean up projects like the one's we've done recently for BG.

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