Relatives of 47-year-old Curtis Brown are working with an out-of-state funeral home to have him returned to his family in Mississippi.
Authorities have identified the man whose body was inside a van stolen from a Rockford funeral home on Saturday and later abandoned in Chicago.
The van was found Sunday in the 1400 block of East 87th Street, near Dorchester Avenue, in Chicago's Calumet Heights neighborhood – 97 miles away from the Rockford funeral home from which it was stolen. But Brown's body was not inside, and was not found until a day later – more than two miles away.An anonymous 911 call brought Chicago Police to an alley near 83rd Street and Manistee Avenue on Monday afternoon, after someone thought they spotted a body in the road.
Brown's relatives are working with an out-of-state funeral home to have him returned to his family in Mississippi, according to the coroner's office.
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