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Since the Catholic cemetery was privately owned by the Church, the disinterment activity was not duly recorded in the Chicago press. The jarring juxtaposition, below, right, of the report of the Catholic cemetery grounds being laid out as residential land, immediately followed by the diligence of the City in attempting to contact lot owners and recording the work of disinterments, can seem to amplify the notion that the Catholic graves were not thoroughly exhumed. A newspaper account, four years later, details exumations at that time. (Incidentally, the reporting of 6,000 bodies removed from the City Cemetery include the several thousand Confederate prisoners from the potter's field. If that is an accurate accounting, upwards of 20,000 graves remain in the municipal graveyard in 1873.)
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Chicago Tribune, December 8, 1872
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Chicago Daily Tribune, August 3, 1873
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