{"id":77130,"date":"2026-08-07T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/remains-of-56-people-found-decomposing-at-chicago-funeral-home\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:57:10","slug":"remains-of-56-people-found-decomposing-at-chicago-funeral-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/remains-of-56-people-found-decomposing-at-chicago-funeral-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of 56 people found decomposing at Chicago funeral home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials describe \u2018deplorable conditions\u2019 at home run by pair linked to crematory closed due to mishandled remains<\/p>\n<p>The remains of 56 people were found improperly stored and decomposing on Thursday at a Chicago funeral home run by a couple who previously operated a crematory that was similarly shut down because of mishandled remains, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois state officials, meanwhile, suspended the license of one of the funeral home\u2019s directors, alleging bodies were being kept in an unrefrigerated area in \u201cdeplorable conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/07\/chicago-funeral-home-bodies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials describe \u2018deplorable conditions\u2019 at home run by pair linked to crematory closed due to mishandled remains The remains of 56 people were found improperly stored and decomposing on Thursday at a Chicago funeral home run by a couple who previously operated a crematory that was similarly shut down because of mishandled remains, authorities said. &#8230; <a title=\"Remains of 56 people found decomposing at Chicago funeral home\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/remains-of-56-people-found-decomposing-at-chicago-funeral-home\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Remains of 56 people found decomposing at Chicago funeral home\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}