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  2. Forest Home Cemetery (Forest Park) - Wikipedia

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    Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. DesPlaines Ave, Forest Park, Illinois, adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway, straddling the Des Plaines River in Cook County, just west of Chicago. [1] The cemetery traces its history to two adjacent cemeteries, German Waldheim (1873) and Forest Home (1876), which merged in 1969.

  3. List of cemeteries in Cook County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    2900 W. 111th St., Chicago: 1880 Nondenominational [14] Mount Hope (St. John's U.C.C.) Palatine: Mount Hope Cemetery 11500 S. Fairfield Ave., Chicago: 1865 Nonsectarian [15] Mount Hope Cemetery Elgin: Mount Isaiah Israel Cemetery (now Zion Gardens Cemetery) 6758 W. Addison St., Chicago: 1886 Jewish Mount Mayriv Cemetery (now Zion Gardens Cemetery)

  4. Maureen Murphy (politician) - Wikipedia

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    Maureen Murphy (née Toolan; November 14, 1952 – August 9, 2008) was an American politician in the Republican Party. She held several offices in Illinois, serving as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives and the Cook County Board of Review , and chairing the Cook County Republican Party from 2002 to 2004.

  5. Museum of Funeral Customs - Wikipedia

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    A gift shop provided books and funeral-related gifts, including coffin-shaped keychains and chocolates. It was closed in March 2009 due to poor attendance and handling of the museum's trust fund. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The contents of the collection were transferred to the Kibbe Hancock Heritage Museum in Carthage, Illinois , in February 2011.

  6. List of people from Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Attorney General of Illinois Born in Chicago Michael Madigan: Apr 19, 1942: 67th and 69th Speaker of Illinois House of Representatives Born in Chicago Joseph Medill: Apr 6, 1823: Mar 16, 1899: Newspaper editor, mayor of Chicago: John Gould Moyer: Jul 12, 1893: Jan 21, 1976: 31st governor of American Samoa: Born in Chicago Eliot Ness: Apr 19 ...

  7. Mount Olivet Cemetery (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Mount Olivet was consecrated in 1885, and was the first Catholic cemetery to be established in the south side of Chicago. There are over 142,200 people buried at the cemetery, with over 150 annual interments. The cemetery is 93 acres (38 ha) in size.

  8. Hollywood actress Maureen O'Hara buried at Arlington National ...

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    O'Hara was born in 1920 near Dublin as Maureen Fitzsimons. She played feisty women in swashbucklers such as "The Black Swan" in 1942, "Sinbad the Sailor" in 1947 and "At Sword's Point" in 1952.

  9. Deaths in January 2014 - Wikipedia

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    W. Robert Blair, 83, American lawyer, businessman and politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1967–1977). [393] Michael Botmang, 76, Nigerian politician, Governor of Plateau State (2006–2007), kidney disease. [394] Peadar Clohessy, 80, Irish politician, TD for Limerick East (1981–1982, 1987–1997). [395]