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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. The two adjacent cemeteries merged on February 28, 1969, with the combined cemetery being called Forest Home (Waldheim means "forest home" in ...
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) 3600 N. Narragansett Ave., Chicago: 1893 Jewish Mount Olive Cemetery: 3800 N. Narragansett Ave., Chicago: 1889
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.
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.
Surveys conducted in the 1980s found strontium-90 in the soil at Plot M, trace amounts of tritium in nearby wells, [3] [4] and plutonium, technetium, caesium, and uranium in the area. In 1994, the United States Department of Energy and the Argonne National Laboratory yielded to public pressure and earmarked $24.7 million and $3.4 million ...
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery of the Archdiocese of Chicago, located in the village of Alsip, Illinois, in Worth Township, southwest of Chicago. It was the first cemetery in the archdiocese to open post World War 1, after Mt. Olivet cemetery began to run out of space.
The monument was dedicated on June 25, 1893, after a march from Chicago. The dedication ceremony was attended by 8,000, with trade union flags and the American flag draped on the monument. European unions and American organizations sent flowers to be placed. [1] A number of activists and labor leaders were subsequently buried nearby.
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