Restoration & Maintenence of Bachelors Grove Cemetery – Illinois USA
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As of October 2009, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County will not be acquiring the cemetery. This is due to various matters concerning other properties that were to be wrapped up in a single package. It is possible that the cemetery will be up for consideration next spring but at the moment the Real Estate Management Office of Cook County will still retain ownership.
As always, we will keep you updated on any future developments as well as how this may or may not effect any of the restoration efforts.
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The current state to the acquisition of Bachelors Grove cemetery by the Forest Preserve District is that the transfer of the property has yet to be completed. At some point during October of 2009 there is to be a meeting with the commissioners of Cook County about the details of the transfer and we will keep you updated as further information becomes available.
On a side note, we are still waiting for a response from the Forest Preserve District about a permit to help clean-up the area at the end of the month and we hope to provide more details shortly.
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As most of you are aware, the cemetery is under the control and supervision of the Real Estate Management Office of Cook County. Although maintenance of the cemetery is to be shared with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County there are some changes taking place.
It has come to our attention that the Forest Preserve District will be taking over complete ownership and responsibility of the cemetery at some point this year. What this will mean for the true care and maintenance of the cemetery remains to be seen. During these hard fiscal times for Illinois it will be interesting to see how much attention they will be able to give to the cemetery and its surrounding area.
During an attempt to secure a permit for a clean-up in June of this year we were told that during this process of transferring ownership all permit requests will have to be denied. We will keep you updated on further developments as information becomes available.
For the moment all volunteers are still welcome to attend the smaller clean-ups in which we simply pick up trash left behind by visitors to the cemetery. As for any other clean-ups in the future which involve trimming weeds and cutting grass, this duty may, and most certainly should be, handled by the Forest Preserve District themselves. Of course if they can’t maintain the cemetery on a regular basis the GRP will most certainly extend a helping hand. Again, we will keep you updated on further developments as information becomes available.
Take care everyone, see you all on May 2nd!
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