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ROSEHILL Cemetery and Mausoleum Chicago's largest cemetery holds several Chicago mayors, Civil War generals, and a Vice President.	GRACELAND Cemetery The most famous cemetery in the area, Graceland contains many of 19th-century Chicago's greatest citizens - architects, mayors, and captains of industry, with the most magnificent tombs in Chicago.	OAK WOODS The South Side's historic cemetery, with Mayors Harold Washington and William Hale Thompson, physicist Enrico Fermi, Olympian Jesse Owens, and six thousand Confederate prisoners.
BOHEMIAN NATIONAL Cemetery Chicago's Bohemian cemetery features some of the best funerary art to be found within the city, a beautiful indoor columbarium, and the assassinated Mayor Anton Cermak.	SAINT BONIFACE A old German Catholic cemetery on the north side.	MONTROSE Cemetery and Crematorium Featuring Japanese and Serbian sections, a neoclassical crematorium building, and spectacular modern monuments of black granite.
JEWISH GRACELAND The oldest Jewish cemetery in Chicago, dating back to 1851. Densely populated with monuments, Jewish Graceland has a timeless aura.	WUNDER'S Cemetery A small Christian cemetery next to Graceland.	ST. HENRY Chicago's only churchyard.
BETH-EL and RIDGELAWN Cemeteries A pair of Jewish cemeteries on north Pulaski.	MOUNT MAYRIV Part of a cluster of Jewish cemeteries in Northwest Chicago	ACACIA PARK Masons, obelisks, and a superb community mausoleum.
DUNNING Cook County Cemetery for the poor	DOUGLAS MONUMENT PARK The 35th-street tomb of Senator Stephen Douglas.	CHICAGO CITY CEMETERY Almost nothing remains of one of Chicago's earliest graveyards. NEW 2008

CALVARY CATHOLIC CEMETERY Chicago's historic Catholic cemetery, established in 1859 and located on beautiful lakefront property in Evanston.	SAINT ADALBERT CATHOLIC CEMETERY Serving Polish Catholics in Chicago since 1872.	SAINT PETER, SKOKIE A parish cemetery in Skokie.
WOLFRUM CEMETERY A tiny, once-neglected graveyard in a residential neighbourhood.	NEW LIGHT CEMETERY Lincolnwood's Jewish Cemetery, with a newly built chapel.

FOREST HOME (German Waldheim) Known worldwide for its monument to the Haymarket martyrs.	MOUNT CARMEL Catholic Cemetery With Chicago's Archbishops and Julia Buccola Petta, whose body was incorruptible.	WALDHEIM Jewish Cemeteries Over three hundred adjacent Jewish cemeteries, each with its own entrance.
CONCORDIA A large Lutheran cemetery featuring a multitude of obelisks and angels - and an adjacent rest home's cemetery.	OAK RIDGE and GLEN OAK A neoclassical mausoleum; Masons' Rest; and a "Howlin' Wolf".	WOODLAWN Home of "Showmen's Rest", with the victims of a 1918 circus train wreck.

MOUNT OLIVET The South side's oldest Catholic cemetery, predominantly Irish and Italian. Featuring the original Capone grave, the O'Learys, and Irish burial society monuments.	HOLY SEPULCHRE The late Mayor Daley, a shrine to Chicago's own Saint Frances, and "Chicago's Miracle Child".	BACHELOR'S GROVE Considered the "most haunted cemetery in Chicago". Small, barren, and badly vandalized, but world-famous for its numerous sightings.
ST JAMES at SAG BRIDGE A churchyard on a hill where spectral monks have been sighted.	RESURRECTION Home of "Resurrection Mary", the "Vanishing Hitchhiker".	LITHUANIAN NATIONAL Cemetery A national cemetery with revolutionary heroes.
BETHANIA A Lutheran cemetery established in 1894.	MOUNT GREENWOOD The South Side graveyard that gave its name to the neighbourhood.	RESTVALE Muddy Waters and other top blues musicians.
MOUNT HOPE Immediately south of Mt. Olivet is Mount Hope, a wooded, hilly cemetery with several interesting monuments.	BURR OAK Chicago's historic African-American cemetery	SAUERBIER-BURKHARDT A tiny family cemetery.
ST MARY Catholic Cemetery A large and modern Catholic cemetery with an unusual grotto.	SAINT JAMES, SAUK VILLAGE A very old parish cemetery

GRAVEYARDS OF BARRINGTON Evergreen Cemetery in the Village of Barrington, and haunted White Cemetery.	LONG GROVE CEMETERY A quiet churchyard in a well-preserved village.	GRIDLEY FAMILY CEMETERY One of the smallest graveyards in the Chicago area.
ST JOHANNES and REST HAVEN Two very old cemeteries, one a former churchyard, on the grounds of O'Hare airport.	BRONSWOOD A wooded cemetery of Du Page county	OAKLAND, WOODSTOCK Historic cemetery of Woodstock, Illinois NEW 2008
CARLOCK'S PARTISAN GRAVEYARDS A graveyard for Democrats, a graveyard for Republicans NEW 2008	JOLIET RUSSIAN CEMETERY A small graveyard with a definite Eastern character. NEW 2008	MOUND GROVE, KANKAKEE Kankakee's historic cemetery. NEW 2009

SPRINGFIELD: OAK RIDGE President Lincoln's Burial Site	SPRINGDALE CEMETERY Peoria's Victorian Rural Cemetery	UPPER ALTON CEMETERY Grave of the World's Tallest Man
ELKHART CEMETERY A beautiful little cemetery on a hill NEW 2008	ST MARCUS CEMETERY A rustic parish cemetery in Monroe County NEW 2009	RUSHVILLE CITY CEMETERY Dry creek beds make interesting terrain NEW 2009

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