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November 2023 by CLARENCE COLAR
My mother & Dad are Laid to Rest at thisPlace and I am totally upset with this administration for not completing the Dates on my mother’s head plate.Each time I visited the site it’s still not there.
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March 2023 by Eric Waggoner
I went to check this place out today while looking for famous graves and was very disappointed in how bad the grounds are taken care of , trees falling down , graves sinking into the ground and parts of the fence are falling down also.
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February 2023 by Patricia Schroeder
My family is buried here for many long years we visited this place as kids to enjoy the nature and animals while we vised loved ones. Most recent is my father. After a year the ground is pushing up not just ours others as well. Notice that things are not up keeping at the cemetery. Also noticed and was getting worried and noticed and told my family they had our a bunch of gray stone graves everywhere! like the incident in alsip with that cemetery we're loved ones were being dug up and moved and put on top of other people and other horrible things. I agree this should also be looked into.
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January 2023 by Guy P.
My close childhood friend is interred here. On my last visit, his entire burial area was terribly overgrown. I could not find his marker. This cemetery appears to do no maintenance. They dishonor the memory of these people and their final resting places. I wouldn't trust these "caretakers" to bury our dog.
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December 2022 by MARK BOWEN
Should fix its fence so deer won't keep getting out on to streets & getting killed
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December 2022 by Marquittia D.
My mother, grandmother, and now uncle are all buried at this cemetery. I'm confident once upon a time this was a beautiful, well kept business. As of today, the place is so ran down. They are not keeping up with the maintenance for this place at all. For all of the money families are paying for their loved ones final resting place, you would think the cemetery would at least keep up with the landscaping.
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October 2022 by Myrna Rodney
They have gone down disgracefully bad. My grandparents are out there. Why we choose my Daughter. Worse decision. Sad each visit we make. Almost Everytime other families attend they share the same sentiments. We need something to change. People paid money. They deserve a decent nice place for their loved ones. Included picture. Never green grass, her headstone has ever been placed in the ground just a mess. We need ,New ownership that care. Please we need everyone who are Not satisfied to complain. Write the proper official places to get this owner to fix up this cemetery. Sell it to people who care about our loved ones. Speak up. Let's report this to the news etc.....
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October 2022 by Vickie Armstrong-Williams
Cedar Park Cemetery used to be a beautiful Cemetery but everyday it's getting worse and worse. My son was buried there in 07/09/21 and I'll just say the maintenance us not up to par. His burial plot went almost a year without grass a long with the other graves that are beneath his. The grass that is there is because we bought grass seed. Now the problem is the Cemetery being locked as it should be. In the last two weeks we have noticed that the gates are not locked. At10p.m.the Cemetery should be safe and secure. One day last week and today 09/10/21 at 9pm.the gates sit wide open. There is also a gate knocked down on the south end of the Cemetery that has not been fully repaired where anyone can walk right in. Burials are expensive and a Cemetery is the final resting place for our loved ones, why is the upkeep of the Cemetery not a priority?
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September 2022 by Dawn Rosen
This has been a problem for a while now.. We have a few family members laid to rest here not just the 2 photos i posted .. Everytime we come or sum one else visits there it looks like this.. Unacceptable..
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June 2022 by Rosamond Arnold
This cemetery does not deserve 1 star. Deplorable conditions. My sister has issued complaints any number of times , even to the cemetery commission in Illinois. Our last experience on June 13th was horrific. We went to put flowers on our parents graves and discovered them desecrated. What happened to them met the definition of desecration.2 new graves had been dug on either side of our parents graves, we were unable to locate our parents graves for at least 10 mins. We thought they had been moved. When we we did finally locate them the graves were covered from headstone to foot by residual soil from the freshly dug graves. It took us at least 20 minutes to uncover our parents headstones using our hands and a piece of metal we found in the area.The result was still unacceptable.When you bury your loved ones you expect their resting place to be serene and treated with respect..Please do not bury your loved ones at Cedarpark if you have any other option.Horrible, horrible place.
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May 2022 by Tishunda F.
In dealing with the untimely death of my father, I was given a list of Cemetaries to contact for his interment. The Funeral Director did specifically reference couple of suggestions in which Cedar Park cemetery wasn't one of them. However, after meeting with the office supervisor, Ms. Brown, who seemed to be compassionate, I selected Cedar Park. Almost instantaneously, after the grave site ceremony with my Pastor, before we could exit the grounds, I felt an uneasiness regarding the groundkeeper's body language. Subsequently, I made an appointment to meet with the foreman Lamont T, Taylor to express my concerns about my Beloved Father being buried under clay vs, dirt. Mr. Taylor gave the excuse that due to rainy conditions; they could not put down sod /soil. He assured me that soil would be put down in approximately three weeks. I waited over a month and returned on March 25th, 2022. The Office contacted a Groundkeeper to accompany me. The Groundkeeper could not show my correctly where my father was placed as I refuted the areas that he pointed out. He had to get Mr. Taylor, who had documents in hand to point out the area were my Father was laid to rest. On March 25th, there was a marking, and I was allowed to place a flower made of "steel" on his gravesite. Mind you, he was still buried under Clay. On May 10th, I concurred with Ms. Brown that my father's burial insurance had paid them and once again requested that when I return, I "pray" that sod/soil be placed over my father. On May 22nd, I went to the cemetery and not only was my father still under clay, but his markings were disposed of. On May 23rd, I contacted the office and spoke to Ms. Brown relaying my concerns and disappointment. I also sent her pictures from March 25th and May 22nd. Ms. Brown assured me that after speaking to the foreman Mr. Taylor that she would contact me. To date, no avail. I have ascertained an Attorney for my father's estate and will be following up with the Owners Cemecare LLC, DBA. At this point, I would prefer to have my father's remains removed to another cemetery. In hindsight, I wished that I had done my research prior to selecting a cemetery and I would have read all of the negative reviews (in which I am in agreement) and not selected Cedar Park Cemetery. My suggestion to Everyone who reads this review, is NOT to put your loved ones at Cedar Park. I will post an updated review once I outreach to the owners of Cedar Park. I also learned during my research that the owners (Cemecare LLC, DBA) of Cedar Park Cemetery (which is black-owned) also purchased Burr Oaks Cemetery, who were involved in a grave reselling scheme in 2009......Reprehensible indeed.
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May 2022 by Jeanette Delaney
My mother and several other family members have been laid to rest at this cemetery. this place is a total dump and I am so regretful for choosing this place as her resting place. My mom have been deceased for 6 years now and I've been hearing the same of sorry story for 6 years. "We are working on getting it together. Well it's time to talk the talk because now I am going to call every dam news media station I can think of. In fact, how do you even know if the decease isn't laid to rest on top of one another. Nothing surprised me at this place. All I can say it's a sad place to visit your love one's resting place!
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November 2021 by Marquisha Williams
Very disrespectful! second tine in a weeks span Ive visited and my husbands grave site was disturbed. Both time his flowers were ran over! Should have better protocols seeing as they are in a emotional business.
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September 2021 by Jennifer Johnson
I always thought visiting a deceased love one at their final resting place would be a calming and relaxing experience. I envisioned sitting under the nearest tree reading book or tablet or napping or maybe even laying a blanket down propping myself up against their standing headstone. Well, this isn’t the case whenever I visit my Granny at this place. I often think what was so great about this cemetery that caused so many of her family members to want to be laid to rest there, which caused my Granny to want to be laid there as well. Every time I visit I get a instant headache driving in the gait where you’re immediately met with a giant pothole, continuing your route to your loved one dodging more potholes, reaching the area where they’re laid and having to walk over unleveled grass/weeds and mounds of dirt. We thought we picked nice clean location for her, but every time we visit there is a another plot disturbed with more dirt mounds. Grass in her location is near nonexistent, weeds have taken over. Apparently they don’t believe in planting grass seeds as the claim. Each headstone that has recently been placed, including my Granny’s, aren’t aligned correctly. Not to mention the stone I picked was not the stone we received. It’s like they just threw the headstones down and kept going. There’s no sitting up against her headstone on a blanket, because two reasons; 1) they don’t allow uprights because of the damn deers; and 2) deer p*** is all over the place! I won’t go into how they’ve left one of my great aunts plots after disturbing a near by plot. We’ve voiced numerous complaints to the office, management, and placed work orders and nothings being done. My next post/letter is going to be to IDFPR. Anyone thinking of choosing this cemetery as a final resting place, DON’T!! If it wasn’t for the final wishes of my beloved Granny I wouldn’t have nor would I ever in the future lay another member of my family there.
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June 2021 by David Deal
Avoid at all costs. Cedar Park Cemetery is an abomination. The grounds are unclean. The pavement is marred with potholes that make driving risky. The grave sites are overgrown with grass. The staff is rude and unhelpful. Consider yourself warned.
