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One cemetery prairie in Plainview, Illinois stands at least 1 ft (30 cm) above the surrounding cornfield, illustrating the difference in soil retention rates of perennial versus cultivated annual vegetation. [9] Some cemetery prairies have been abandoned over time, and some remain active community burial grounds.
This list of cemeteries in Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Weston Prairie is a surviving fragment from a parcel of land that was set aside by early residents in 1870 to serve as a township cemetery. The Weston Cemetery Company in 1869 or 1870 purchased 5 acres (2.0 ha) from local resident Anton Adam, who with his wife Cynthia reserved three plots within the cemetery for the family, according to an 1884 deed filed with the office of the McLean County ...
Forest Home Cemetery was the site of a Potawatomi village and burial ground until 1835. [2] [3] Two memorials at Forest Home are dedicated to Native Americans who lived in the region. [4] [5] Ferdinand Haase, founder of Forest Park, and other members of the Haase family are buried on what at one time also was a Haase family homestead. [2]
Lake Forest Cemetery is a rural cemetery in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.The site was first identified for burial in 1857 when the town of Lake Forest was planned. Later, William Le Baron Jenney designed a winding road system and Ossian Cole Simonds developed the landscape schem
Burial monuments and structures in Illinois (1 C, 7 P) Burials at the Bishop's Mausoleum, Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside) ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics;
With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the northern part of Illinois, 708, eventually received such with area code 464 taking effect on January 21 ...
The Association of Natural Burial Grounds (ANBG) was established by The Natural Death Centre charity in 1994. It aims to help people to establish sites, to provide guidance to natural burial ground operators, to represent its members, and to provide a Code of Conduct for members. The NDC also publishes The Natural Death Handbook. [25]