Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois

Graceland Cemetery is a church cemetery in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. The grounds sit at about 600 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 578 notable people buried here, including Roger Ebert, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Ronald Coase. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 409235. The nearest other listed cemetery is Getty Tomb, about 0.2 mi to the north. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Cremation Society of Illinois in Chicago, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 187 cemeteries we list in Cook County, and 41 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Cook County dates to 1834. 23 of the 187 listings in Cook County have a phone number or website on record.

Among them: 62 business leaders, 51 writers, 38 architects, 22 artists, 19 journalists, 18 physicians, 15 US representatives, 13 inventors and engineers.

• Roger Ebert1942-2013
  American film critic and author
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe1886-1969
  German architect
• Ronald Coase1910-2013
  British economist and Nobel laureate
• Louis Sullivan1856-1924
  American architect
• László Moholy-Nagy1895-1946
  Hungarian artist
• Jack Johnson1878-1946
  American boxer
• William Le Baron Jenney1832-1907
  American architect
• Cyrus McCormick1809-1884
  American inventor and businessman
• Daniel Burnham1846-1912
  American architect and urban designer
• Allan Pinkerton1819-1884
  Scottish-American civil war detective and spy
• George Pullman1831-1897
  Engineer and businessman from the United States
• Fazlur Khan1929-1982
  Bangladeshi architect

People whose Wikidata entry gives Graceland Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.

Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.

• Getty Tomb

  Lincolnwood, IL
  Cemetery

  0.2 mi
• Wunders Lutheran Cemetery

  Chicago, IL
  Lutheran cemetery

  0.3 mi
• Wunder's Cemetery

  3963 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL
  Christian cemetery

  0.3 mi
• Hebrew Benevolent Cemetery

  3919 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL
  Jewish cemetery

  0.4 mi
• Saint Boniface Catholic Cemetery

  Lincolnwood, IL
  Catholic cemetery

  0.8 mi
• Rosehill Mausoleum

  5800 North Ravenswood Avenue, Lincolnwood, IL
  Cemetery

  2.2 mi
• Rosehill Cemetery

  5800 North Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL
  Cemetery

  2.3 mi
• Saint Henry Catholic Cemetery

  1929 West Devon Avenue, Chicago, IL
  Catholic cemetery

  2.9 mi
• Couch Mausoleum

  Chicago, IL
  Cemetery

  3.5 mi
• Bohemian National Cemetery of Chicago

  5255 North Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL
  National cemetery

  3.6 mi

• Cremation Society of Illinois

  Cremation provider · Chicago · (773) 281-5058
  1.0 mi
• Inclusive Funeral Care LLC

  Funeral home · Chicago · (773) 318-1305
  1.0 mi
• Grein Funeral Directors

  Funeral home · Chicago · (773) 588-6336
  1.1 mi
• Furth Chapels

  Funeral home · Chicago · (773) 784-4300
  1.3 mi
• Lakeview Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Chicago · (773) 472-6300
  1.3 mi
• Nelson Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Chicago · (773) 561-5147
  1.3 mi

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