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This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Cook County, Illinois. Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the second-most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County, California. As of 2015, the population was 5,238,216. Its county seat is Chicago , the largest city in Illinois and third-most populous city in the United States. More than 4...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Chicago, Illinois. This project is in the Cook County, Illinois project. The name "Chicago" is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as "Checagou" was by Robert ...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Chicago. Jews came to Chicago from virtually every country in Europe and the Middle East, but especially from Germany and Eastern Europe. Unlike most other immigrant groups, Jews left the Old Country with no thoughts of ever returning to lands where so many had experienced poverty, discrimination, and even sporadic massacres. J...
The University of Chicago ( UChicago ) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. In Fall 2021, it enrolled 18,452 students, including 7,559 undergraduates and 10,893 graduate students. The university is composed of an undergraduate college and five graduate research divisions, which contain all of the...
Homewood Memorial Gardens is comprised of several older cemeteries and burial grounds. Holland (Mount Holland) Cemetery was the burial place of the early Dutch settlers from nearby South Holland, Illinois and saw its first burials in the late 1850s. The other early cemeteries included Fremont Holbrook Cemetery , Oak Ridge Cemetery , and the Doepp Estate Plot . By the early 1900s all of these ce...
Wikipedia =Loyola University Chicago (often referred to as Loyola or LUC) is a private American Catholic university located in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1870 by the Jesuits, today Loyola is one of the largest Catholic universities in the nation and a major contributor to Chicago's economic and cultural capital. Loyola's professional schools have educated generations of local business and ci...
Wikipedia =DePaul University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1998, it became the largest Catholic university by enrollment in the United States. Following in the footsteps of its founders, DePaul places special emphasis on recruiting first-generation stud...
Siia projekti kogume kõik eestlased kes on Chicagos või selle ümbruses elanud mõnda aega, tegutsenud eesti organisatsioonides ja osalenud eestipärastel üritustel. Nende hulgas: Chicago Eesti Maja (Estonian House of Chicago) Chicago Eesti Selts Põhja Illinois Eestlaste Koondis EELK Chicago Esimene Kogudus EELK Chicago Pauluse Kogudus Kesk - Lääne Eesti Noorte Koondis (KLENK) Chicago Eesti...
National Louis University (NLU) began in 1886, when Elizabeth Harrison founded the school to train "Kindergarteners", young women teachers who began the early childhood education movement. The school's requirements became a model for education colleges nationwide. In 1893, the university published Harrison's book, The Kindergarten as an Influence in Modern Civilization, in which she explained, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cook County, Minnesota. Official Website The first inhabitants of this area were the Ojibwe people. The first non-indigenous people to see the area were French fur traders, a few of whom settled in the area (by the 1830s the French population of this area was a few dozen). In the 1830s, settlers began arriving from New England and f...
Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois, 60655 USA Find a Grave
Located in Proviso Township, Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois. Burials began in 1912. There are 100 acres of lawn, and 2 large mausoleums. The most famous burials are the victims of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train crash in 1918. Tragedy struck the circus before 4:00 a.m. on June 22, 1918, in the Hammond Circus Train Wreck when the engineer of an empty troop train fell asleep, and colli...
Wikipedia Roosevelt University is a coeducational, private university with campuses in Chicago, Illinois and Schaumburg, Illinois. Founded in 1945, the university is named in honor of both former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The university's curriculum is based on principles of social justice. The university enrolls around 7,000 students between its und...
Owned and operated by the City of Elgin, Bluff City Cemetery is a nonsectarian cemetery that has provided the final resting place for area residents since 1889. Bluff City Cemetery’s 108-acres of well maintained grounds, bordering fen and butterfly garden provide a beautiful and peaceful setting for visitors to remember loved ones. Address: 945 Bluff City Boulevard Elgin, Cook County, Illinois...
Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois or Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA: Find a Grave German Waldheim Cemetery , previously known as Waldheim Cemetery , was originally founded in 1873 as a non-religion-specific cemetery, where Freemasons , Romani, and German -speaking immigrants to Chicago could be buried without regard for religious affiliation. In 196...
Oak Woods Cemetery is located in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. It is a private cemetery owned and operated by Dignity Corporation, and is not affiliated with any church denomination. It is one of the more significant historic cemeteries on Chicago's south side with burial sites of renowned figures like Mayor Harold Washington, civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, and Olympian Jesse Owens. Th...
Wikipedia =The Illinois College of Optometry (ICO) is a 4-year private optometry college located in the city of Chicago, Illinois. Graduating approximately 160 optometrists a year, it is the largest optometry college in the United States and is the oldest continually operating educational facility dedicated solely to the teaching of optometrists. The College complex incorporates more than 366,0...
Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago’s finest hidden treasures. On the North Side, amongst the everyday hustle and bustle, lies a serene yet vibrant park-like cemetery. Located between two major Chicago cross streets, Clark & Irving Park, Graceland Cemetery is the final resting place to many prominent Chicago figures, including athletes, politicians, industrialists and many of the finest archi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cook County, Georgia. Official Website The constitutional amendment to create the county was proposed July 30, 1918, and ratified November 5, 1918. It is named for former Civil War general Philip Cook of the Confederate States Army. Adjacent Counties Tift County Berrien County Lowndes County Brooks County Colquitt Cou...
Oakridge Cemetery and Glen Oak Cemetery were once two cemeteries, side-by-side. They are now one single cemetery with combined names. The cemetery is located on 4301 West Roosevelt Road, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois. Mount Greenwood Cemetery was established in 1879 and the first burial was Apr 01, 1880. This cemetery is owned by the Mount Greenwood Cemetery Association, which is private stockholders. Find a Grave Interment.net Chicago Tribune Article - December 13, 2020 The Beverly Review Article - July 21, 2020 Hist...
Please add those who were born, lived or died in Elgin, Illinois. Official Website Elgin is a city in Cook and Kane counties in the northern part of Illinois, United States. Elgin is located 35 miles northwest of Chicago, along the Fox River. As of the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 114,797, the sixth-largest city in Illinois. History The Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Blac...
Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary (G-ETS) is a private seminary and graduate school of theology related to the United Methodist Church. It is located in Evanston, Illinois on the campus of Northwestern University. The seminary offers a number of masters and doctoral-level degree programs in the theological disciplines and promotes a wide range of programming through its academic Centers ...
Concordia Cemetery, founded in 1872, is operated by an association of several Lutheran congregations in Chicago. The Des Plaines River runs along the cemetery's western side, and the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) marks the southern boundary; the expressway's construction in the early 1950s necessitated the relocation of several thousand graves in the cemetery, as was also true of Forest Home Ce...
Rosehill Cemetery (founded 1859) is an American garden cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and at 350 acres (1.4 km2), is the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago. According to legend, the name "Rosehill" resulted from a City Clerk's error – the area was previously called "Roe's Hill", named for nearby farmer Hiram Roe. He refused to sell his land to the city until it was promis...