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Westlawn Cemetery
Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Chicago, Illinois. Notable persons buried there include Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald; film critic Gene Siskel; Abe Saperstein, creator of the Savoy Big Five, which later became the Harlem Globetrotters; Shel Silverstein (next to his parents), creative author and cartoonist who created "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "The Giving Tree," among many others.
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