CHICAGO, October 30, 2011—Graceland Cemetery is one of the most well known 19th Century cemeteries in Chicago and beyond.
The final resting place of a Who’s Who of Chicago artists, architects and business builders, Graceland’s stones and crypts are unique in their opulence and Gothic influences.
The entrance to the cemetery is located at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road on the cities North side. In keeping with the Victorian sentiments for graveyards, Graceland offers a serene park like setting designed for the strolling and even picnicking pleasures of the living.
Some of those buried at Graceland include:
- David Adler, architect
- Philip Danforth Armour, meat packing magnate
- Mary Hastings Bradley, author
- Daniel H. Burnham, architect
- Fred A. Busse, mayor of Chicago
- Members of the William Deering family
- Augustus Dickens, brother of Charles Dickens (he died penniless in Chicago)
- George Elmslie, architect
- Marshall Field, businessman, retailer, whose memorial was designed by Henry Bacon, with sculpture by Daniel Chester French.
- Bob Fitzsimmons, Heavyweight boxing champion, born in Cornwall, UK
- Melville Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Elbert H. Gary, judge, chairman of U.S. Steel
- Bruce A. Goff, architect
- William Holabird, architect
- Henry Honore, businessman
- William Hulbert, president of baseball’s National League
- William Le Baron Jenney, Architect, Father of the American skyscraper
- Jack Johnson, first African-American heavyweight boxing champion
- Fazlur Khan, structural engineer
- William Kimball, Kimball Piano and Organ Company
- John Kinzie, Canadian pioneer, first white settler in the city of Chicago
- Cornelius Krieghoff, well known Canadian artist
- Victor F. Lawson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News
- Frank Lowden, Governor of Illinois
- Marion Mahony Griffin, architect
- Cyrus McCormick, businessman, inventor
- Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Daughter-in-law of reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick
- Maryland Mathison Hooper McCormick, econd wife of Col. Robert R. McCormick
- Nancy “Nettie” Fowler McCormick, businesswoman, philanthropist
- Joseph Medill, publisher, mayor of Chicago
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, influential photographer, teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and Institute of Design IIT in Chicago
- Walter Netsch, architect
- Richard Nickel, photographer, architectural historian and preservationist
- Ruth Page, dancer and choreographer
- Bertha Palmer, philanthropist
- Francis W. Palmer, newspaper printer, U.S. Representative, Public Printer of the United States
- Potter Palmer, businessman
- Allan Pinkerton, detective
- George Pullman, inventor and railway industrialist
- John Wellborn Root, architect
- Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect
- Louis Sullivan, architect
- Frederick Wacker, politician
- Kate Warne, first female detective, Allan Pinkerton employee
- Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon who performed one of the first successful operations on the pericardium
Graceland Cemetery
4001 North Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60613
(773) 525-1105
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