Graceland Cemetery

Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery located in the North Side neighborhood of Lakeview, in the city of Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at Clark and Irving Park. The Sheridan stop on the Red Line is the nearest L station. The cemetery is close to Wrigley Field.

Related Topics:
Lakeview - Chicago, Illinois - Wrigley Field

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The cemetery's walls are topped off with barbed wire, as well as razor wire in some locations.

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Many of the cemetery's tombs are of great architectural or artistic interest, including the mausoleums of Henry Harrison Getty, the Ryerson family (both designed by architect Louis Sullivan, who is also buried here), and the Schoenhofer Pyramid Mausoleum. The industrialist George Pullman was buried at night, in a lead-lined coffin within an elaborately reinforced steel-and-concrete vault, to prevent his body from being exumed and desecrated by labor activists.

Related Topics:
Henry Harrison Getty - Louis Sullivan - George Pullman

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• David Adler, architect
• Philip Danforth Armour, meat packing magnate
• John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois
• Daniel 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)
• Marshall Field, businessman, retailer
• Bob Fitzsimmons, Heavyweight boxing champion
• Melville Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Elbert H. Gary, judge, chairman of U.S. Steel
• Carter Harrison, Sr., mayor of Chicago
• Carter Harrison, Jr., mayor of Chicago
• Henry Honore, businessman
• Jack Johnson, Heavyweight boxing champion
• Fazlur Khan, architect
• William Kimball, Kimball Piano and Organ Company
• John Kinzie, Canadian pioneer, first white settler in the city of Chicago
• Cornelius Krieghoff, one of Canada's best known artists
• Frank Lowden, Governor of Illinois
• Marion Lucy Mahony, architect
• Cyrus McCormick, businessman, inventor
• Joseph Medill, publisher, mayor of Chicago
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, influential photographer, teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and Institute of Design in Chicago
• Richard Nickel, photographer, architectural historian and preservationist
• Ruth Page, dancer and choreographer
• Bertha Palmer, philanthropist
• Potter Palmer, businessman
• Allan Pinkerton, detective
• George Pullman, inventor and railway industrialist
• John Wellborn Root, architect
• Louis Sullivan, architect
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
• Howard van Doren Shaw, architect
• Frederick Wacker, politician
• Kate Warne, first female detective, Allan Pinkerton employee

See also:

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• List of United States cemeteries
• List of famous cemeteries
• List of mausoleums