By Dave Savini

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CHICAGO, Illinois ( WBBM ) — Hundreds of bodies cremated at the Heights Crematory in Chicago Heights, Illinois, never made it to their loved ones.

The crematory was shut down after the CBS News Chicago Investigators exposed how bodies were being mishandled there. Now, there is an effort to find a final resting place for those whose bodies were cremated.

When the State of Illinois shut down the crematory, they found more than 500 boxes lying in filth — each belonging to some family somewhere because they were filled with ashes of their deceased loved ones.

Some of those ashes have yet to be identified, but the ones that have been identified are now behind closet doors and ready to be picked up at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s o

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