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Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750-plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Showmen's Rest founding and the Hammond circus train wreck of 1918
Cemeteries in Chicago (2 C, ... Calvary Cemetery (Evanston, Illinois) E. ... St. Joseph Cemetery (River Grove, Illinois) Showmen's Rest
Jane Byrne, first female mayor of Chicago; Charles Comiskey, founding owner of the Chicago White Sox; John Coughlin, 1st ward alderman from 1892 to 1938; John Creed, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient; Thomas Cusack, US congressman; William Emmett Dever, mayor of Chicago from 1923 to 1926; Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, Illinois governor
Bethel Cemetery 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 ...
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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.
Chicago O'Hare to Build Runway on Cemetery Land. Libby Zay. Updated September 22, 2016 at 5:12 PM. The City of Chicago has made a decision to relocate around 1,200 graves to make room for a future ...
The Anti-Defamation League recorded a more than 400% increase in anti-Semitic crimes in Illinois between 2016 and 2021. The cemetery vandals weren’t the first to reference Kanye West’s anti ...