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In addition to being a home for several different owners, the house has also served as a funeral home and as the headquarters of the Chicago Urban League. [2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978. [1] On December 3, 2023, the building was severely damaged in a fire. [3] [4]
Inhumations (human interments) at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, a suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. Interments in the adjacent German Waldheim Cemetery (with which it merged in 1969) are included.
Bodfish is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southern Kern River Valley of the Southern Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California, United States. Bodfish is located 32 miles (51 km) east-northeast of Bakersfield, [5] at an elevation of 2,687 feet (819 m). [4] The population was 1,956 at the 2010 census, up from 1,823 at the 2000 census.
Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. DesPlaines 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.
Dozens of funerals were underway at the offices of Havas Chicago — one every 11 minutes. The River North ad agency transformed its lobby into a funeral space last Thursday, the pop-up ...
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).
Jerry Springer Shutterstock Remembering a TV icon. Jerry Springer was laid to rest during a private funeral service in Chicago on Sunday, April 30. Attended by the late host’s family and friends ...
Hempstead Washburne, mayor of Chicago [60] Frank Wenter, politician [61] Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon who performed one of the first successful operations on the pericardium [62] George Ellery Wood, lumber baron. [63] His home, built in 1885, on 2801 S. Prairie Ave. in Chicago, IL is a historical landmark [64]