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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 ...
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
English: Grave of Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, on Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), Vienna, Austria Deutsch: Das Grab des Physikers Ludwig Boltzmann am Wiener Zentralfriedhof Date
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (/ ˈ b ɒ l t s m ə n /, [1] US: / ˈ b oʊ l-, ˈ b ɔː l-/; [1] [2] German: [ˈluːtvɪk ˈbɔltsman]; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explanation of the second ...
Irving Park Cemetery is located at 7777 West Irving Park Road, in Chicago. [2] Irving Park Cemetery performed its first interment in July 1918. [3] Some of the victims of the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre are buried at Irving Park Cemetery. [2]
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.
Founded in 1911 by local Black business leaders, the cemetery is next to the Oak Hill Cemetery. [1] The cemetery is noteworthy for the number of famous African-American Chicagoans buried there, among them several notable blues and jazz musicians, as well as notables in literature, sports, and history.
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