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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.
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
Cook County Cemetery at Dunning (Read Dunning Memorial Park) 6550 W. Belle Plaine Ave., Chicago: 1854-1911 Potter's field [6] Cook County Cemetery for the Indigent (Cook County Cemetery at Oak Forest) 159th St. and Crawford Ave., Oak Forest: 1911-1971 Potter's field: Couch Mausoleum (City Cemetery) Chicago [7] Dalton Cemetery Danish Cemetery Lemont
At Ahlgrim Family Funeral Services, a funeral home with a mini-golf course in the basement, death is par for the course. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
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).
The Pettit Chapel is located in the Belvidere Cemetery in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, which is in Boone County. The cemetery was chartered in 1837 and contains 13,000 known graves. [2] The chapel was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places December 1, 1978. [3]
Eaton opened the first funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds after a battle with established funeral directors, who saw the "combination" operation as a threat. He remained as general manager until his death in 1966, when he was succeeded by his nephew, Frederick Llewellyn. [1]
Located at the east edge of Kickapoo State Park, this cemetery was dedicated in 1864 and deeded from Sylvester and Martha Hutton. Atherton 40°06′27″N 87°35′35″W / 40.10750°N 87.59306°W / 40.10750; -87.59306 (