Families, neighbors sickened by discovery of dozens of decomposing bodies at South Side funeral home
<p>Latasha Johnson had given the eulogy and ended her mother’s funeral service at the South Chicago Chapel, 2939 E 95th St., when she and her family noticed their vehicles were blocked in by Chicago police.</p><p>Not long after, officers found <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/08/06/decomposing-bodies-found-funeral-home-south-chicago-chapel-95th-street" >dozens of decomposing bodies</a> inside the funeral home.</p><p>“That startled me,” Johnson, 55, said. “I’m thinking maybe there’s something going on in the neighborhood, on the block, not thinking it’s something within this facility.”</p><p>Johnson was directed toward the home by her mom's hospice care providers at UChicago Medicine.
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<p>Latasha Johnson had given the eulogy and ended her mother’s funeral service at the South Chicago Chapel, 2939 E 95th St., when she and her family noticed their vehicles were blocked in by Chicago police.</p><p>Not long after, officers found <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/08/06/decomposing-bodies-found-funeral-home-south-chicago-chapel-95th-street" >dozens of decomposing bodies</a> inside the funeral home.</p><p>“That startled me,” Johnson, 55, said. “I’m thinking maybe there’s something going on in the neighborhood, on the block, not thinking it’s something within this facility.”</p><p>Johnson was directed toward the home by her mom's hospice care providers at UChicago Medicine. She now laments not doing her research on the chapel's owners.</p><p>“I just lost my mom, they caught me at a weak point,” she said. “I trusted them with my mom’s remains.
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- <p>Latasha Johnson had given the eulogy and ended her mother’s funeral service at the South Chicago Chapel, 2939 E 95th St., when she and her family noticed their vehicles were blocked in by Chicago police.</p><p>Not long after, officers found <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/08/06/decomposing-bodies-found-funeral-home-south-chicago-chapel-95th-street" >dozens of decomposing bodies</a> inside the funeral home.</p><p>“That startled me,” Johnson, 55, said. “I’m thinking maybe there’s something going on in the neighborhood, on the block, not thinking it’s something within this facility.”</p><p>Johnson was directed toward the home by her mom's hospice care providers at UChicago Medicine.
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Families, neighbors sickened by discovery of dozens of decomposing bodies at South Side funeral home
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