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7777 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago: 1918 Jewish Graceland Cemetery (Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery) 3919 N. Clark St., Chicago: 1851 Jewish [11] LaGrange Cemetery (formerly Parkholm) Berwyn area Lake Street / Lakewood Memorial Park near Elgin: Lincoln Cemetery
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.
Eternal Silence, alternatively known as the Dexter Graves Monument or the Statue of Death, [1] is a monument in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery and features a bronze sculpture of a hooded and draped figure set upon, and backdropped by, black granite.
The structure informally known as the Bishops' Mausoleum, designed by architect William J. Brinkmann, is located at Mount Carmel Cemetery and is the final resting places of the Bishops and Archbishops of Chicago; its formal name is the Mausoleum and Chapel of the Archbishops of Chicago, and it is the focal point of the entire cemetery, standing on high ground.
Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. Des Plaines 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.
Rosehill's Joliet-limestone entrance gate (added in 1864) was designed by William W. Boyington, the architect of the Chicago Water Tower and the Old University of Chicago, who is buried in Rosehill. The Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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]
Anton Cermak, Chicago mayor assassinated in 1933. [5] Otto Kerner, Sr., (1952) judge and former Illinois Attorney General. [10] Elsie Paroubek, (1911) a five-year-old kidnapping and murder victim [11] whose story and photo in the Chicago Daily News inspired Henry Darger's novel The Story of the Vivian Girls. [12]