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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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    5736 N. Pulaski Rd., Chicago: 1895 Jewish [3] Beverly Cemetery 12033 Kedzie Ave., Blue Island: 1920 Bill Funks Cemetery Tinley Park: Potter's Field: Bloom Presbyterian Cemetery (also known as First Presbyterian) Chicago Heights: 1843 Bloomvale Cemetery Chicago Heights: Blue Island Cemetery Blue Island: In Memorial Park Bluff City Cemetery Elgin

  4. Ludwig Boltzmann - Wikipedia

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    Boltzmann was born in Erdberg, a suburb of Vienna into a Catholic family. His father, Ludwig Georg Boltzmann, was a revenue official. His grandfather, who had moved to Vienna from Berlin, was a clock manufacturer, and Boltzmann's mother, Katharina Pauernfeind, was originally from Salzburg.

  5. List of archaeological sites on the National Register of ...

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    [3] Landmark name Image Location County Culture Comments; 1: Albany Mounds Site: Albany: Albany Mounds Trail 4]: Whiteside: Middle Woodland: Hopewell: 2: Alton Military Prison Site: Alton: inside the block bounded by Broadway and William, 4th, and Mill Sts. 5]: Madison: Euro-American: 3: Apple River Fort Site: Elizabeth: 0.25 miles east-southeast of the junction of Myrtle and Illinois Sts. 6 ...

  6. Graceland Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.

  7. Red Gate Woods - Wikipedia

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    It is located near where the Cal-Sag Channel meets the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. In the woods is the original site of Argonne National Laboratory and the Site A/Plot M Disposal Site, which contains the buried remains of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear reactor.

  8. Bachelor's Grove Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Bachelor's Grove Cemetery is a cemetery in Bremen Township, Cook County, Illinois, in Chicago's southwest suburbs. The cemetery has also been called Bachelor Grove, Batchelor Grove, Batchelder's Grove, and Everden (or Everdon). This cemetery is the setting for a number of ghostlore stories.

  9. Haymarket Martyrs' Monument - Wikipedia

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    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).