Graceland Cemetery - Chicago, IL
Posted by: Metro2
N 41° 57.275 W 087° 39.728
16T E 445124 N 4644945
This cemetery is located at the intersection of North Clark and West Irving Park Road in Chicago.
Waymark Code: WMC5ZM
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2011
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Adjacent to another cemetery, Wunders (See WMC4YK), this cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Whereas Wunders is/was a cemetery for poor people, this cemetery has multiple monuments and elaborate mausoleums. It was established in 1860 when this land was still outside the Chicago city limits.
This Wikipedia article (
visit link) list dozens of prominent people who are buried here.
No information could be found concerning the number of graves here...but a good guess might be 3,000.