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This list of cemeteries in Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and Memorial or Stephen Douglas Monument Park is a memorial that includes the tomb of United States Senator Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861). It is located at 636 E. 35th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois (part of the city's Douglas community), near the site of the Union Army and prisoner of war Camp Douglas.
The logo of Find a Grave used from 1995 to 2018 [2] Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4]
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Homewood Memorial Gardens is a privately-owned cemetery in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois. Many other unrelated cemeteries share variations of this name. This site may have formerly been called Oak Lawn Cemetery.
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 Primarily Scandinavian Mount Olivet Cemetery: 2755 W. 111th St., Chicago: 1855 Catholic
This list of cemeteries in Vermilion County, Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The largest monument in the cemetery marks the grave of pioneer and local historian Nehemiah Matson; it is 34 feet (10 m) tall and made of 44 tons of granite, and it cost $4,600 when it was built in 1884. [2] The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 1, 2021, as the Oakland Cemetery Historic District. [1]