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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Graceland Cemetery in Chicago

Located on the north side of Chicago between Clark Street and Irving Park Road, Graceland Cemetery is one of America's finest garden cemeteries.

Created in 1860 on 80 acres of land in what was then Lake View, Illinois, two miles outside the city of Chicago, it now encompasses 119 acres of winding streets, lush gardens and incredible monuments to some of the city's most illustrious individuals: Cyrus McCormick, Martin Ryerson, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, Alan Pinkerton, architects Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham (the latter entombed on his own island in the cemetery), William Kimball (of piano fame), and Philip Armour (meatpacker extraordinaire) are just a few of the fantastic stories that quietly bide their time waiting for you to visit.

The one entrance is right at the corner of Clark Street and Irving Park Road. Signage in the cemetery is virtually non-existent and what "street" signs do exist are confusingly laid out. I suggest stopping at the office for a guide map or downloading a copy of the handy map and brochure that at least identifies the location of the major monuments.
Dexter Graves
Azarian Palmer

Allan Pinkerton



Timothy Webster

Kate Warne, first female detective in the United States


Pinkerton Employee Memorial

Hoyt

Hoyt

Peter Schoenhofen




Martin Ryerson

George Pullman

William Kimball


Louis Sullivan


Goodman family

Potter Palmer


Edith Rockefeller McCormick

Gary-Lyon

bridge to Burnham Island


Philippe, Susan and Marie


Marie

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Potter Palmer from across the lake

Burnham Island

Fisher


Potter Palmer

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Bruce Goff


Goodman family from across the lake

Ruth Page

Cyrus McCormick family


Marshall Field family




Otto


Gloor family




Walter-Willard-Wooster

Inez Clarke

Wheeler family

Jones family


Brainerd famly

Emily Sleight Brainerd

Daniel Brainerd

Sanger family


John B. Dickey





Mary Avery

Cramer-Matteson


Tuttle

Victor Lawson




Hutchinson


Mosset family