Mt. Olivet Cemetery

111th Street
Chicago, Illinois
Established 1885

Mt. Olivet was the first Catholic cemetery on the South side of Chicago. Archbishop Patrick Feehan purchased the land for $40,000 in 1884. Previously, most of the south side Irish had been buried in Calvary, far to the north of the city. Mt. Olivet was consecrated June 28, 1885, with fifteen thousand people attending the ceremony.

ENLARGE MAP

	Main Entrance	Lynch
	Byrne	Patrick and Catherine O'Leary
	Welch	Ancient Order of Hibernians
	Irish Nationalist Society	Father Murray
	Ahern	Al Capone
	Dalto	O'Hern Mausoleum
	Two Soldiers

References:

Corrigan, John: "Mt. Olivet and the Burial Societies", Sceal, Chicago Irish Folklife Society
Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone, Da Capo Press, 1971
Kogan, Herman and Wendt, Lloyd: Chicago: A Pictorial History, Bonanza Books 1958

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