Graceland Cemetery!
 
Grace Land Cemetery is one if the best known cemeteries. It was established is 1860. Grace Land is on the north side of Chicago; its main entrance is at the corner of Clark and Irving Park roads. Free maps and pamphlets are available as well as a $7 book published by The Chicago architecture foundation, A Walk Through Grace Land Cemetery.

 Some really famous people are buried there: politicians, artisans, and architects—even a brother of a Charles Dickens. The original city cemetery was on the lakefront and it was considered a health hazard due to overcrowding and water borne diseases. The bodies were then moved to a nearby Grace Land in the town of Lake View. The old cemetery is now what you know as Lincoln Park. At the cemetery there are some headstones that just say “mother”, “father”, and “baby” -no names. Some are plain because they are so old. The writing on them just faded away through the years. 
   Some buried there...          
The ashes of architect William Le Baron Jenney  (1832-1907) were
scattered over his wife's grave, just south of Eternal Silence. Jenney designed  the world's first modern skyscraper, the 10-story Home Insurance Building
(1884).

         Samuel Klump Martin
    June 24, 1837 - Aug 11, 1896
    Erected in Affectionate
    Remembrance by his Wife
 Katie Babcock

      Wife of Samuel K. Martin
    Sept 19, 1841 - Feb 18, 1926

                                        Lorado Taft (1860 - 1936)
                 Five female figures are grouped together so that water flows from the shells they hold in the same way that it passes through the Great Lakes system.  Superior, at the top, and Michigan empty their water into the basin held by Huron, who sends her stream onto Erie. Ontario receives the water and gazes off as it flows into the ocean. 

                  The idea for a Great Lakes fountain came from a remark made by architect Daniel Burnham chiding sculptors assembled to ornament the fairgrounds of  the Columbian Exposition for not "making anything" of the great natural resources in the west, especially the Great Lakes.  

                  
 

1.Where is Graceland Cemetery located now?

2.Do you think it sounds like a nice place that you would want to be buried there?

3.What kind of people are buried here? Like what ages around?

4.What are some of the sites you would see there?

5.Why do you think this cemetery is so famous?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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