Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago, Illinois

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Chicago, Illinois 60660 United States

Coordinates: 41.98610, -87.68190
773-561-5940
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Rosehill Cemetery is Chicago's largest and oldest cemetery dating back to 1859 and contains at least 200,000 grave sites in a 350-acre garden setting. The Joliet limestone gates date to 1864 and were designed by William Boyington, who also designed the Chicago Water Tower. In 1975 the gates were placed on the National Register of Historical Places. There are numerous beautiful and unique grave monuments in the cemetery. Many of those buried here were the most prominent citizens in Chicago's past, while other graves contain ordinary people of all backgrounds, cultures and religions. Opening in 1995, there is an American Civil War Museum with 350 Union soldiers and 16 Union generals interred nearby. Nineteen former Chicago mayors have been buried here along with state-level politicians, United States Congressmen, Senators, and Presidential Cabinet Members and Charles Gates Dawes, Vice President of the United States. Sixty-one of the 602 victims of the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire have a final resting place in this cemetery. The final resting places of recognized entrepreneurs Oscar Mayer, Aaron Montgomery Ward, Richard Warren Sears, and others are located here.