CBS 2 obtained this photo of bagged bodies stacked at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, which is over its storage capacity.
CHICAGO (STMW) – To the disgust of some staff, bodies are piling up at the office of the Cook County Medical Examiner, stacked atop each other in blue plastic tarps against a wall of the storage cooler because of ongoing financial woes, the Sun-Times has learned.
All the storage trays are full, and many have a second body on them, according to sources in the office. Some 400 adults and about 100 babies are currently being kept in the cooler designed for under 300, one source said.
“There are so many bodies in there now, they can’t keep it cool enough. The stench is like nothing I’ve ever seen,” another source in the office said. “I think it’s sacrilegious.”
Medical Examiner Nancy Jones said “yes, we do” have a larger than normal number of bodies at the office.
“What we currently have in our cooler is somewhere around 300 bodies,” she said. “There is not twice that number.”
Jones said there is a backup in burials of babies because of a change in a county ordinance. Last year, critics raised questions about the remains of babies and fetuses — many who had died at birth or as a result of miscarriage — being combined for burial. So county commissioners changed the ordinance requiring the remains of babies and fetuses be placed in separate compartments.
“We haven’t been able to do any infant or fetal burials because we are waiting for some special boxes to be designed and built,” Jones said.
“There are some [adult] bodies stacked on top of boxes right now in the cooler. They’re not going to be there much longer because some of them should be put in burial ‘shells’ [wooden coffins] because there’s [an indigent] burial coming up.”
Typically after examination or autopsy, bodies remain at the office for a few days until funeral directors pick them up for burial or cremation.
But when grieving families can’t afford a burial, the county takes over. Last fall, the medical examiner’s office revealed a controversial plan to donate to science the remains that go unclaimed after only two weeks unless families object. Others were still to be buried in the pauper’s graves in Homewood, for which the county previously paid $300 each. But a source said delivery of the “burial boxes” has stopped because the medical examiner’s office hasn’t paid the company that builds the them — another reason for the bodies piling up.
While Jones said there is no average for the number of bodies kept in the morgue, she said the increase in the number of bodies is the result, in part, of state aid to help pay for burials of those who die without any assets being slashed.
“That is really the big part of it,” Jones said.
The state last summer cut $13 million from the program. Last week, Jones said, the county received word that the state had reinstated funding.
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197 Comments
TONI PRECKWINKLE GET ON IT! I SMELL A RAT.
January 14, 2012 at 4:08 pm
If you want to see stench just take a look at Rahm Emanuel and Pat Quinn,
then go down town around kedzie and 51st, then move up clark to the hommo section and look around it’s all stench oh lets not leave out the taco munchers in lil villa.
January 16, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Worst county in the worst state in the union! TERM LIMITS OF ONE!!!
January 14, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Just a sign of the times. Cut cost when ever and where ever you can.
http://www.dailyjobcuts.com
January 14, 2012 at 10:21 pm
But don’t cut the politician’s salaries and perks or union jobs
January 15, 2012 at 7:22 am
Plus whats really interesting is that since OBumma got elected the Blacks are killing each other and all types of crimes like murders, black Mob Flash Robberies , drive-bys etc etc are at record levels!…One would think they would be happy and on their best behavior seeing they have one of their own Finally in our “White House” but NOooOoOoOoO!!!
January 15, 2012 at 8:55 am
You sound like a complete jerk that I’ll love to meet so you can talk like that in my presence.
January 15, 2012 at 11:28 pm
ED YOUR 100% RIGHT ON!!! THIS IS THE 2012 SAYING…OBAMA OR AMERICA YOU CAN’T HAVE BOTH!!!!PASS IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 16, 2012 at 9:49 am
fabians all talk. trust me.
January 16, 2012 at 4:00 pm
The flow of bribe money must have stopped. Graft is Illinois.
January 15, 2012 at 9:44 am
No. All politicians should be limited to two terms. One in office, the second in prison.
January 16, 2012 at 1:03 am
They all get a third term – we call it compassionate death!
January 16, 2012 at 7:19 am
did you know they bury politicians twice as deep?…its because deep down they’re really good people
January 16, 2012 at 2:41 pm
This demonstrates the have and have nots. I spent close to 20k buring both my parents. We already owned a bural plot.
January 16, 2012 at 12:32 pm
The stench of Crook County is overwhelming.
January 14, 2012 at 7:00 pm
It’s completely out of control. How much longer will we allow liberal Democrats to destroy our cities and counties?
January 15, 2012 at 5:11 pm
They are keeping them on ice so they can vote in the next election,
January 14, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Oh, golly, or ghouly, I think you are right
January 14, 2012 at 10:42 pm
lol, that’s morbid Steve…but probably true!
January 15, 2012 at 9:35 am
Yep! They’ll defrost them and they’ll join the other zombies who always vote the same way. In fact, one of them just might be the next Alderman from the 49th Ward.
January 15, 2012 at 11:34 am
That’s probably the truth.
January 16, 2012 at 11:03 am
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Simple solution. INCINERATE 4hours tops. End of problem.
January 14, 2012 at 9:53 pm
SIGN ON BUILDING SAYS – DEMs at WORK!
January 14, 2012 at 10:05 pm
So long as each of them votes for me twice, no issues, baby…
January 14, 2012 at 10:37 pm
Can’t wait for the government to do our health care.
January 14, 2012 at 10:50 pm
… i will always keep you close to my heart …
… i won’t ever forget you …
… remember me too …
A Prayer for the Departed
January 14, 2012 at 11:03 pm
Thanks. At least.someone has a little compassion
January 14, 2012 at 11:58 pm
We are all about compassion in http://www.NewNation.org
January 15, 2012 at 1:18 am
OK, I hope you are directing that to the parents of the 100 dead abandoned babies there and not to us!
January 15, 2012 at 9:12 am
compassion is for the living – it’s too late for the deceased.
I seriously doubt that even one of the bodies in the Morgue actually complained about the overcrowding.
January 16, 2012 at 7:26 am
Wait until after Election Day on Nov 6 when Obama loses. The bodies will really start piling up from the Chicago riots.
January 14, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Now THAT will be must see TV!
January 15, 2012 at 9:11 am
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If government can’t manage dead bodies they have no business trying to control the living. Death care is the easiest service to provide and they can’t even do that right. Degenerates.
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January 14, 2012 at 11:10 pm
Well said!
January 14, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Roger that!
January 15, 2012 at 12:00 am
I truely hope the government reads your comment. It is so true. But lets not get
down and dirty with word choice at end. We are better than them.
January 15, 2012 at 1:41 am
Ditto.
January 16, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Saving them for Barry’s next Halloween Party?
January 14, 2012 at 11:13 pm
This is disgusting and it’s only going to get worse, sadly, thanks to our electing leaders who are either entirely ignorant of the Constitution or entirely opposed to it.
p.s. who wrote this article? Was there no editor available? Very, very unprofessional.
““What we currently have in our cooler is somewhere around 300 bodies,” she said. “There is not twice that number.””
I believe you meant to type “now”, rather than “not”
“…the medical examiner’s office hasn’t paid the company that builds the them ”
Builds “the” them?
“While Jones said there is no average for the number of bodies kept in the morgue, she said the increase in the number of bodies is the result, in part, of state aid to help pay for burials of those who die without any assets being slashed.”
…no explanation required.
My editing services are available for a fee…
January 14, 2012 at 11:34 pm
This is a disgrace, but sadly typical of Chicagoland municipal mismanagement.
What’s worse, Obama is trying to “Chicago-ize” our entire country – kind of like this.
January 14, 2012 at 11:59 pm
“hasn’t paid the company that builds the them —” someone needs to proof read this stuff. Jeeze
January 15, 2012 at 12:37 am
we said that todd was doing a bad job look at toni preckwinkle she is not doing a good job herself people who past away should be buried right after a autopsy or a examination that’s so sad if a body go’s unclaimed then the county should take care of them and stop puting the money in their pocket. if the government can’t manage dead bodies they have no business trying to control the living..
January 15, 2012 at 12:44 am
This practice of burying a body has got to stop… we need to cremate all new bodies because there simply isnt enough room on the planet any longer.
January 15, 2012 at 12:54 am
We’ve got plenty of dirt. If you laid bodies, side by side, the entire 2,777 miles from NYC to Los Angeles, you’ld need about 10.5 million stiffs. The annual US mortality rate is 2.4 million, or the same side-by-side bodies distance from NYC to Cincinnati. The world isn’t running out of dirt. You can feed ‘em to the crabs and save alot of money.
January 15, 2012 at 10:35 am
why do you want to poison the crabs?
January 16, 2012 at 7:22 am
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, I see Rahm Emanuel is doing a great job as mayor, NOT. World’s worst crew of politicians that all belong in prison!
January 15, 2012 at 1:04 am
Let me see…they must be all of the democrats poor…..
January 15, 2012 at 1:59 am
Any bets that 3/4 of them are black?
January 15, 2012 at 2:08 am
and 1/4 His[panic.
January 15, 2012 at 9:10 am
I think the proper term is ‘people of color’ since ‘white’ is no longer considered a color.
January 16, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Soylent Green?
January 16, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Was the budget cut by Democrats? Was that because they needed more voters?
January 15, 2012 at 3:13 am
The liberal utopia, if only we all could live there.
January 15, 2012 at 5:52 am
Regressivism coarsens everything it touches./
January 15, 2012 at 6:05 am
I can not think of a place I would wish this on MORE!
January 15, 2012 at 6:20 am
They must be saving these people to VOTE in the election!
January 15, 2012 at 6:21 am
Dear God….
Please don’t let me die in Illinois!
January 15, 2012 at 6:53 am
I have an idea, get Mrs. Oleary’s cow and burn the whole city again!!!!
January 15, 2012 at 7:03 am
I fhtere are no claims for them then burn them up and dump the ashes in a landfill. Probably most are former street bums and thugs which their families deserted them long ago while still living.
January 15, 2012 at 7:13 am
I bet most of them are regular people. Regular Democrat ghetto people. The families COULD pay for them, but it’s all part of the grift, let the government pay for EVERYTHING! Remember there are 100 babies there, I’m sure they were not homeless bums.
January 15, 2012 at 9:08 am
These aren’t “bodies”, they are DEMOCRAT VOTERS. This happens every election year.
January 15, 2012 at 7:25 am
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They were keeping them til 2012 elections. That’s 500 Obama votes!
January 15, 2012 at 7:28 am
lolz
January 15, 2012 at 7:47 am
They’ll be kept in the cooler until November so that they can vote. Obongo 2012!
January 15, 2012 at 7:29 am
there i was thinking i was all funny n stuff :(
January 15, 2012 at 7:50 am
Give Obama another term and this will be a national situation. Obama’s “militia” will see to that!
January 15, 2012 at 7:35 am
There is no one to blame here but the idiotic Dem voters. The corruption is so deep, you can’t even figure it out. Garbage collectors making $40k a year, retire at 50, and their “salary” jumps to $140k. All the elected Dems stink here! And the people are just where the Dems want them, stupid, fat and dependent on the government for everything.
January 15, 2012 at 7:39 am
Pay me the money to dispose of them. I promise you as a PRIVATE CITIZEN, I will make a GOOD LIVING with half the money they are paying to the unionized govt hacks sitting around playing cribbage. I am unemployed and would love the chance to cash in.
January 15, 2012 at 7:39 am
Saving them up for the next election. Dem voters…..everyone
January 15, 2012 at 7:44 am
Sounds like it is time for a judge to rule that we are violating the Constitutional rights of these poor souls and order that 1/2 of them be released back into society!
January 15, 2012 at 7:45 am
False media outrage over Marines “washing” the dead bodies of Taliban fighters, but not a peep over this desecration. It figures.
January 15, 2012 at 7:51 am
The cold fact is Chicago needs to fire up the ovens. This corpse problem will continue to get worse for the next several decades before it begins to taper off. It should be viewed as a health and sanitation problem and dealt with appropriately.
January 15, 2012 at 7:54 am
These corpses do not feel any discomfort, are not inconvenienced and will not be complaining.
January 15, 2012 at 8:44 am
The morgue is pretty popular. People are DYING to get in!
January 15, 2012 at 3:31 pm
just preparing for Obama’s re-election effort
There is no possible way he can win with living breathing THINKING human beings,
but with a couple union goons, marxists, and corpses – anything is possible.
January 15, 2012 at 8:49 am
Just remember you Chicagoan s…you get what you vote for. If you like the Daley`s, Emanual`s, Obama`s, and that little governor guy Rob (whatever his name is) and keep electing the Democrat Crime Machine into office they will keep stacking up the bodies and who knows what else. But, I have the solution. Higher taxes…Right?
January 15, 2012 at 8:54 am
Feed these bodies to my dog? Are you kidding? I’d never feed anything to my dog that once voted for Obummmer
January 15, 2012 at 8:55 am
100 Babies bodies, now THAT is Sacrilege! Sacrilege on the parents, not the government. People are total leeches in Chicago. Institutionalized poverty. And remember America, these people are voting for their own self interests of free services that you pay for if you pay taxes. Remember to vote! It’s not only good for your self interests, it’s good for America’s interests!
January 15, 2012 at 9:05 am
Maybe Rahm Emanuel will take care of the problem himself. lol
January 15, 2012 at 9:11 am
He would mail them to somebody.
January 15, 2012 at 10:04 am
With Obama-could-care-Less health care Control bearing down on us, can you imagine the Hospital Morgues? I agree…that if Government cannot handle the disposal of dead bodies, how in the heck will they handle OUR own families who get sick and need REAL Health CARE? Horrifying and Disgusting!
January 15, 2012 at 9:16 am
Show me a municipality being run almost exclusively by liberals, and I’ll show you a cesspool of crime, poverty, despair and misery.
Picking our president from the dump known as Chicago is like picking our next meal from the county landfill.
January 15, 2012 at 9:18 am
Ill. is broke and can’t pay for coffins. Let’s see. You elect liberals to the gov. and they spend spend spend so, it must be no surprize you can’t afford to take care of dead “voters”. After all, they can’t vote or, can they? How many dead voters will vote for obama? You should know being broke the last thing you should do is vote for another liberal when the state can’t even bury their dead. But, vote for obama you certainly will completely void of common sense. I hope the dead find a way to their rest. It is certainly one thing they are “entitled” to.
January 15, 2012 at 9:28 am
A sad comment for Sunday morning reading but totally understandable considering the source, but I doubt it is much different in any major city run by uncaring liveral beaureacrats totally lacking in common sense. If the body can be identified, it should be and a relative billed for the costs, then immediately it should be cremated and buried promptly. If the courts have trouble with that, stack the bodies in the city hall and/or courts until someone notices, don’t just keep stacking them in a freezer. The whole issue shows the depths of depravity our society has sunk to ever since a large segment of it started depending on the government for cradle to grave care, which according to this article, is a lot less than ideal. By the way, who wrote this mess of an article – must be a recent graduate of our public school system.
January 15, 2012 at 9:38 am
“out of sight, out of mind” of the people that needs to make the decisions!! if they had to walk thru the morgue every morning before they reported to work, it would put things on the proirity list….you must keep the people that make the decisions aware of the problem more than just wrtiting on a peice of paper….they must have some kind of hands on for them to get off their ass and do something.
January 15, 2012 at 9:45 am
Who cares.they’re dead already.
January 15, 2012 at 9:42 am
all democrats!!
January 15, 2012 at 9:42 am
Go bury them in the front lawn of Rahms house.
January 15, 2012 at 9:46 am
Simple solution. Just declare that burial is a “right”. Then make the Feds come up with the money. Should only take them a couple of years to design and build a box that only costs $10k.
January 15, 2012 at 9:52 am
don’t give them any idea’s
January 15, 2012 at 10:20 am
wrap the bodies in newspaper and put them on Rham’s front door step like the dead fish thug HE is….Chicago needs MANY MANY more dead citizens….KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
January 15, 2012 at 10:05 am
give them Union Cards and put them in schools as Union Teacher….they couldn’t be any WORSE that what is passing for “teachers” in the Chicago public schools anyway……Arne Duncan reminds me of a dead body come to think of it. Otherwise, send them over to Jeremiah Wright’s Church for funerals.
January 15, 2012 at 10:08 am
Democrats are collecting and saving the bodies for the 2012 elections.
January 15, 2012 at 10:17 am
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Call DHS , I believe they have several million plastic coffins stored near FEMA camps around the country. Besides, what a great training exercise for DHS. I am sure Big Sis would love to help out too.
January 15, 2012 at 10:23 am
I saw that video on youtube several years ago…showing 250 Thous. Plastic Coffins belonging to FEMA on a plot of land in Alabama or Georgia. You are Right…Let Fema manage this for Rahm and his fellow Liberal PRogs.
January 15, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Are these the “corpse men” Obama talked about???
January 15, 2012 at 10:57 am
Or could be the Zombies he joked about. Never did get what he was talking about Zombies.
January 15, 2012 at 12:37 pm
WHAT THE HELL CHICAGO ???? IF NO FAMILY SHOULD COME FORTH WITHIN 10-14 DAYS…COMMON SENSE TELLS THAT THEY ARE NOT!!! LEGALLY THERE SHOULD BE A LAW TO CREMATE THE REMAINS..HELL THAT IS BETTER THAN “LAYING ” ON TOP OF ANOTHER DECAING BODY!!! THESE UNITED STATES…A VERY GOOD PLACE TO LIVE…& DIE!!! SHAME ON YOU!!!!!
January 15, 2012 at 11:57 am
Just another face plant for the state of Illinois.
January 15, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Perhaps Chicago should deal with all the communists, socialists, crooks and mobs that have their hands out when money is redistributed. There should be enough money to increase the size of the morgue, but I’m sure union thugs need to get paid first.
January 15, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Look at the cities that are rotting from within due to socialist policies. How’s that working out for you? Anti-socialist people need to take a stand. Our numbers are larger than theirs.
January 15, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Hoe could this happen in the home town of the prez?? LOL. It appears there’s more than smelly politics coming out of The WINDY.
January 15, 2012 at 12:28 pm
They are all waiting to vote for Obama, in November!
January 15, 2012 at 12:43 pm
this is due to baby boomer greed and wealth.
they buy everything and then don’t have enough saved up for emergencies.
I bet there are very few generation x’s in this group of people that couldn’t afford this stuff.
January 15, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Lessee. They have “wealth” but haven’t “saved enough up for emergencies”. Nice, genius, nice.
January 15, 2012 at 8:29 pm
The delay is due to trying to register them all to vote for Obama and Rahm next time around.
January 15, 2012 at 1:17 pm
The huge bloated Chicago political machine filled with people doing nothing but getting paid can’t be bothered burying some of their voters.
When is the voting population of Illinois going to wake up and realize they can vote any way they want. They aren’t going to know you didn’t vote for them. Just lie and appear supportive of the political machine and then vote them all out quietly.
January 15, 2012 at 1:39 pm
My brother died in the Chicago area last summer (a suburb), and I cannot convey enough how much I resent that he had to be sent to this rat hole. I did everything I could to get him out of there as soon as possible. That said, if I had found out that he had been part of a stack of bodies, I probably would have went on a rampage.
This is a failure of one of one of the most BASIC functions of a civilized local government. It’s a travesty. But, like most democrat-ran municipalities, they are more concerned with paying their garbage truck driver $100k plus a year than doing what needs to be done to function normally.
With those scathing comments though, take heart liberals; my brother died in the Chicago area. I’m sure that he can now keep voting for you for the next 60 or 70 years. Good thing… he wouldn’t have otherwise…
January 15, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Keep voting for democrats…. keep having this type of problem. It’s that simple.
January 15, 2012 at 2:53 pm
That’s what rule by Democrats looks like
January 15, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Is there room for one more ?
January 15, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Wonder who those people are? Human trafficking? All the leftovers after they are used and abused? Reminds me of Houston Texas. They stack them also. They are willing to lie on autopsy results also. No such thing as a professional anymore. They should all be fired.
January 15, 2012 at 4:22 pm
This is horrible and some of the comments are just terrible. What is going to happen in the future when all the Potters Fields are filled? I would hate to be on a board determining this.
January 15, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Was this about the morgue or was it a mosque? Samo samo!
January 15, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Can you say, AMISTAD? It’s only sacrilegious when the dead believe in Christ. Ganbangers don’t normally believe in Christ. They believe in Obama or the Devil.
January 15, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Blivet: 10 pounds of —- in an 5 pound bag.
January 15, 2012 at 5:40 pm
And that’s just from last Saturday Night…Rim Shot,,,
January 15, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Locate a cemetary. Get a backhoe. Dig a trench 50 feet long by 10 feet wide by 8 feet deep. Put stiffs inside trench much like fine Honduras cigars in a cedarwood box. Re-cover hole and tamp down firmly. Plant flower bed. End of problem.
January 15, 2012 at 5:51 pm
That’s an extra 200 votes for Obama that would have gone uncounted.
January 15, 2012 at 6:22 pm
The article quoted someone as saying: “There are so many bodies in there now, they can’t keep it cool enough. The stench is like nothing I’ve ever seen” .
How did it smell?
January 15, 2012 at 6:24 pm
So the “Christians” complain about improper burials for fetuses and now we have no room at the morgue.
Probably the same “Christians” who won’t raise taxes on the rich to pay for this sort of thing.
Thanks Jesus!
January 15, 2012 at 6:28 pm
While I disagree with pretty much everything you just wrote – that’s actually pretty funny – right down to the name. touche.
January 15, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Rather disrespectful way to treat these eternal and dependable Democrat voters…
January 15, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Chicago, you need more dead ni qg er storage.
January 15, 2012 at 6:31 pm
At least they died doing what they loved. At least they can all still vote for Obama and Fredrenna Lyle.
January 15, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Were any of the 500 heard complaining?
January 15, 2012 at 7:34 pm
This is all Bush’s fault.
Nothing to see here. Move along now.
January 15, 2012 at 7:34 pm
SO maybe it’s time that the City team up with a few funeral homes in the area, and offer Creamation as an option.. There has to be closure for many of these families, but Someone needs to offer something affordable ..Make it happen!
January 15, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Shall we bury or burn them ? Let’s suspend UNION benefits for a few months and spend our taxes for this !
January 15, 2012 at 7:37 pm
register them to vote
January 15, 2012 at 8:42 pm
The “OVER FLOW” has` been going on for at least 50 years, it first came to light with the Our Lady of Angels fire.
January 15, 2012 at 8:05 pm
It is a funding issue they say but the cost of cremation is small. Maybe $500 per body even using expensive fuel for the furnace. $13,000,000 seems to be a lot. at $500 per body that comes to 26,000 bodies; A month’s work at auschwitz. And way more than what chicago sees in a decade. Does it really cost that much? There must be a lot of dead wood in the system.
January 15, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Who’s complaining?
January 15, 2012 at 9:04 pm
D.N.S.
January 15, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Well, who has owned and operated Cook County for the past 100 years? Liberals. Welcome to liberal utopia where ordinary citizens must live in fear of armed thugs and armed thugs have no fear of authority because liberals with video cameras are scattered througout the city looking for the next “sensation” to post on the web which in turn makes the police scared to do anything for fear of being prosecuted for making the slightest mistake. Liberalisim is the stench that makes the city of Chicago smell like death. Oh it really smells like death. This is what Democrats have planned for the rest of America
January 15, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Ah, there just waiting for the local DNC ACORN drone to register them to vote.
I wonder if they all saw, that, “Change we can believe in” from their “Dear Leader”.
Or maybe “Moooochel” wants a study done to see if they were not following her dietary guidelines.
January 15, 2012 at 9:41 pm
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Send the bodies to the conservative states; if they can point the finger whilst complaining about the performance of people and governments that don’t agree with their agenda, it’s a clear indication that they have solutions that they aren’t sharing with the unenlightened.
What’s that? You’re only programed to grouse, but not solve? Well whataya-know!
January 15, 2012 at 10:35 pm
These people always wanted cradle to grave care and it certainly looks like they have literally been getting it.
January 15, 2012 at 11:03 pm
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Have the bodies been registered as Democratic Party voters?
January 15, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Properly designed, a crematory needs only one load of coal to start incineration, and then bodies are fed as a function of BMI to keep the fires running on human tallow. Worked in the Third Reich. Attach a co-generation heat system, and you can use the deceased to generate power, as well.
January 16, 2012 at 1:07 am
As a funeral director/ embalmer with 40 years of experience, I find this story very disturbing but sadly a common problem. This happens in many parts of the country. The problem is that no county, as far as I know, has any procedure to deal with the final disposition of unclaimed bodies. What most places do is try to find family members to claim the body. If none are found, it takes a judge’s order for the county to do the final disposition. That can take months, hence the backlog. What needs to happen is to pace a deadline on trying to find family members ( no more than 15 days), if after no one is found, then cremation should be done immediately. If for some reason, family members come forward, they should be billed for the cost of the cremation that was paid by the county.
January 16, 2012 at 2:04 am
it’s time for an amendment to the constitution. [ All persons in and on the United States will be cremated at death. Burials are hereby abolished and against the law.]
January 16, 2012 at 3:53 am
Sounds like a shovel ready job that never got any funding. this happened in 2010 as well. They need to build another morgue. simple fix with some of that govt green floating around chitown.
January 16, 2012 at 6:24 am
Marty Griffin reporting filthy Negroes raping white women in record numbers.
January 16, 2012 at 6:30 am
Bet they still vote!
January 16, 2012 at 6:58 am
Great YouTube vid, The Election Song 2012
January 16, 2012 at 7:37 am
2012 Obama voters.
January 16, 2012 at 8:36 am
Finally. The great, unanswered question about how Mayor RAHM treats those who didn’t vote for him…or Obama.
First…Under Rahm. Chicago’s Murder rate went up, and they blamed it on poverty, and ghetto living. But now. ITS ALL RAHM’S FAULT…still never letting a Crisis go to waste.
January 16, 2012 at 9:10 am
Was this before or after they voted:twice?
January 16, 2012 at 9:32 am
Better do something quick or we’ll have a ZOMBIE REBELLION in the streets of Chicago.
January 16, 2012 at 9:48 am
Andy takes on a bet all 500 will vote for BHO in November?
January 16, 2012 at 10:01 am
You people are sick.
January 16, 2012 at 10:42 am
Al-l-l-l-right now, which one complained?
January 16, 2012 at 10:51 am
Hey,,,, Tell Toni Preckwinkle and the Democrats that they are illegals ,,,,,,,they will then disappear
January 16, 2012 at 10:56 am
In Chicago they are still able to vote.
January 16, 2012 at 11:07 am
Disgusting.
January 16, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Chicago is stockpiling Obama votes. These stiffs won’t be buried until after the election.
January 16, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Sounds like a the perfect shovel-ready job.
January 16, 2012 at 1:16 pm
I wouldn’t complain about this – if most of the 500 bodies were Chicagoland politicians…
January 16, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Material for Soylent Green?
January 16, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Dead Ni gger Storage
January 16, 2012 at 2:09 pm
gee i wish i could move there,,so peaceful,,,what was obama “organizing ‘ there….mobsters!!! hahahaha
January 16, 2012 at 2:53 pm
They are saving the bodies so they can vote for obama and the democrats in November. That is how things are done in Chicago where DEAD PEOPLE VOTE IN EVERY GENERAL ELECTION..
January 16, 2012 at 3:56 pm
The bodies are unclaimed, abandoned, the homeless. If no one claims the body or the family has no money for a funeral, then dig a big hole and throw them all in and cover with lime and continue. People must take care of their own and stop expecting the government to take care of them! This mentality that the government owes you something is the ruin and down fall of this once great nation. Obama is running this country just like Chicago and it is all circling the drain. NO MORE HAND OUTS!
January 16, 2012 at 4:40 pm
The county morgue needs to invest in a liquification unit where the bodies are dissovled with a chemical and heat and all is flushed down the drain. It is far less expensive than burial or cremation and more environmentally friiendly. People need to get over this misguided belief that you can disrespect a corpse. The disrespect comes when people are alive and left in the street like so much garbage. Once dead, its too late and means nothing to the deceased. Eventually the burial grounds are going to be used up.
January 17, 2012 at 3:08 pm
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what in the world is wrong with our heartless politicians ,how do they sleep well with things like this happening in front of their own eyes ,what God do they believe , in ???when they go to their place of worships while this is happening on there watch ,we have billions of dollars to spent on meaningless wars and yet we have no few millions to put the them poor souls to rest ,damn our politicians from city halls to Washington DC .
January 23, 2012 at 10:28 pm
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January 15, 2012 at 12:57 am
do they have storage for people like you real sad now that’s stench.
and it’s sad to say they had no editor available for a comment like this.
January 15, 2012 at 1:25 am
Coffee came out of my nose – Thanks Andy!
Larry gig – have you ever found anything funny in your little P.C. life?
January 15, 2012 at 9:18 am
We all understand the cost of burials, if there is a problem then the city state
should be cremating. Not puting these persons in wooden coffins.
January 15, 2012 at 1:38 am
So what is going to happen due to over crowding in the morgue locker? They are going to die? Get real people, local, state and federal governments have been spending money like drunken sailors ( no disrespect to sailors intended)for decades. The gravy train is over, it is not going to get better soon. Too many people have been living off of their credit cards without hopes of making good on their debts, in hope that the govt will “help them. Time to put on your “big boy” underpants and suck it up.
January 15, 2012 at 5:31 pm
couldnt the bodies be processed into dog food or something?
January 15, 2012 at 8:04 am
No – Soylent Green
January 15, 2012 at 8:47 am
Too late now, their “ripe”, need to be incinerated before they spread disease.
January 15, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Thats not the way its done for religious reasons. Just bury them like they do in New York City. After a year they bury on top of them if no one has claimed the body. It’s called Potters Field
January 15, 2012 at 9:02 am
Sailor dude
Before the invention of corporate cemetaries and ENOUGH land to bury 100′s of thousands, we now have no place for 7 Billion to buried. I would like you to quote the canon law that states it is against God’s law to be cremated then I want YOU to remember that MAN made those laws…Inspired by GOD??? that defintely is questionable to say the least.
All those sealed caskets being put in the ground with all those chemicals….
Do you really think that is the good for mother earth?? A person that doesn’t question authority and the laws made by a few to control the many … I question that person. Dissidence is the greatest form of patriotism. You love GOD, I am not mocking you, I appreciate the fact that you have that kind of faith, but you don’t question your religious leaders, than look what happens ( Catholic Church for exmaple ) Always question dogmas and canon law, after all, they were written by men, some in BC some at the Council of Nicea in the 1100′s. I don’t even think we were a billion strong on the planet yet in that era Just saying….cc
January 15, 2012 at 10:36 am
The cost of burial isn’t the only reason the bodies are stacking up. This is more than likely occurring in Killadelphia and Deadtroit as well. The number of deaths are exploding. The medical examiner can’t keep up with the autopsies, neither can forensics. Some have not even been identified, I am sure there is a “holding” period to try and identify a body, so the family can give them a proper burial and/or religious rights. This is getting to be an epidemic in some areas, like the two I mentioned above. When are community leaders going to step up and address their communities? What are they even holding office for, if not to serve their communities? Unfortunately because these high rate crime areas are in predominantly black areas, and everyone is trying to be politically correct, no one wants to say a word for fear of being called a racist. I don’t care what race it is, a problem is a problem, that needs to be addressed. The gangs are rampant. Whole sections of towns are taken over like the mafia did in the old days. Some police are afraid to go in certain areas and avoid it like the plague, and most often this is where these “bodies” are found. There have been plenty of stories about the crime rates and the deaths in these cities lately, so it’s only reasonable to assume the dead bodies left in it’s wake are the bodies that are piling up. Stop being politically correct and deal with the problem, that is the solution.
January 15, 2012 at 10:50 am
The median cost of a funeral about two years ago was around $5000 and the median cost of cremation was about $4000; in the U.S. Not sure that the modest price difference really makes any appreciable difference as far as solving this problem is concerned.
As I see it, tax money was allocated and budgeted for a specific purpose. It seems that those funds may not have been spent for the purposes intended. Perhaps the question that should be answered is “how was the money spent” and if it wasn’t spent — “where is the money now?”
January 15, 2012 at 11:53 am
maybe they were just waiting to get them registered and out to vote in 2012
January 15, 2012 at 4:04 pm
YOUR FACTS ARE A BIT IN DISORDER, THE MEDICAL EXAMINER STATED THAT THERE ARE 300 BODIES THERE AND NOT THE 500 AS REPORTED.
January 16, 2012 at 8:46 am
The soylent plants are where the Green Jobs are that Dear Leader promised us. When ObamaCare Death Panels come online the inventory should increase enough to begin production.
January 15, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Oh come now, let’s not be so judgemental. Don’t let the incompetence of 90% of this ethnicty unfairly tarnish your perceptions of the other 10%.
January 15, 2012 at 2:48 pm
And just think of it, the ones in charge are cream-of-the-crop mulatto. Just think of how much closer to utopia Chicagoland would be with only the purest Afroid blood in charge.
January 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm
disgraced !!…or maybe they are saving them to vote ?…either way bullwinkle needs to trim more lard say 15% across the board..ALL DEPTMENTS, watch everyone cry,”dart, my officers are over worked”; sure now they cannot sleep in their cars whole shift, have to hang out and might have to do someting?! Get rid of all them kackies and hacks that are leeches, cut the boards pay…this is suppose to be goverment service, not a carrer political life time free ride, thiefs, and carpetbaggers !Tar and feather the whole bunch…
Law West of the Peco’s
January 16, 2012 at 7:30 am
Everyone in CHICAGO should beware of, and probably stay away from FAST FOOD BURGER JOINTS until this problem is legally resolved, or RAHM blesses all of the Meat at KOSHER.
January 16, 2012 at 9:13 am
Oh yeah. Give or take another 200 bodies will CHANGE everything, huh?
Maybe your facts…should be returned to Rahm, or Obama for approval before coming here to show us what a FOOL looks like.
January 16, 2012 at 9:16 am