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6700 W Higgins A, Chicago: 1841 German Waldheim Cemetery (Forest Home) 863 Des Plaines Ave., Forest Park: 1873 Non-religious specific Waldheim Jewish Cemeteries (central div.), aka Waldheim Cemetery Company 1400 S. Des Plaines, Forest Park: 1873 Jewish [26] Waldheim Jewish Cemeteries (East), aka Waldheim Cemetery Company Forest Park: Jewish [27]
The German Waldheim Cemetery was organized by a group of German Masonic Lodges in 1873 with the first interment on May 9, 1873. [8] The Waldheim Cemetery was established as a non-religion-specific cemetery, where Freemasons, Romani, and German-speaking immigrants to Chicago could be buried without regard for religious affiliation.
Forest Park was the location of Forest Park Amusement Park, [21] a small but popular amusement park located just west of Desplaines Avenue, and just north of the then Waldheim Cemetery, from 1907 to 1922. Initially, the park was received negatively by Chicago area church members due to its close proximity to the cemetery.
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago; Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip; Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island (listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994) Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington; German Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois; Graceland Cemetery, Chicago; Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth; Homewood Memorial Gardens, Homewood; Lake Forest ...
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket Affair (1886).
Thirty-nine tombstones were defaced with red spray paint in the Congregation Am Echod Jewish Cemetery in Waukegan, roughly 26 miles north of Chicago, the Waukegan Police Department said.
Todd was buried in Forest Park, Illinois, at Beth Aaron Cemetery in plot 66, [46] which is part of Jewish Waldheim Cemetery. [47] [48] In his autobiography, Eddie Fisher, who considered himself Todd's best friend, wrote: With Frank Sinatra, 1956. There was a closed coffin, but I knew it was more for show than anything else.
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