Genealogy Projects tagged with Cook County on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Fairmount-Willow Hills Memorial Park, Willow Springs, Illinois

    This cemetery is located on 9100 South Archer Avenue, Willow Springs, Cook County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves Interment.net

  • Our Lady of Angels School Fire

    Our Lady of the Angels was an elementary school consisting of kindergarten through eighth grade. It was located at 909 North Avers Avenue in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago's West Side, on the northeast corner of West Iowa Street and North Avers Avenue (some sources describe the school as "in Austin"). The neighborhood had originally been heavily Irish-American, but gradually developed in the...

  • Evergreen Cemetery, Barrington, Illinois

    This cemetery is located on 610 South Dundee Avenue, Barrington, Cook County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen Park, Illinois

    The cemetery is located on the south side of W 87th Street and the west side of S Kedzie Avenue in Evergreen Park, Cook County, Illinois. The cemetery is 110 acres in size and was established in 1910. Find a Grave

  • Shalom Memorial Park, Arlington Heights, Illinois

    This project is for those buried in Shalom Memorial Park, Arlington Heights, Cook County, Illinois. Notable Interments Albert Louis Dvorin (1922-2004) - Concert Announcer Robert Mazer (1923-2013) - Industrialist, Philanthropist, Chicago White Sox Owner Harold Ramis (1944-2014) - Actor, Screenwriter, Director Links Official Website Find a Grave

  • Chicago State University

    Wikipedia Chicago State University ( CSU ) is a state university of the U.S. state of Illinois, located in Chicago. The University is a member-school of Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Notable Alumni

  • Elmwood Cemetery, River Grove, Illinois

    This cemetery is located on 2905 North Thatcher Road (Cumberland Avenue), River Grove, Cook County, Illinois. There are over 70,000 burials in this cemetery. In order to make a photo request you must provide the plot location. The cemetery will provide the plot location to family members. Please call them before you make the photo request. Find a Grave

  • Elgin, Illinois

    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...

  • Eden Memorial Park, Schiller Park, Illinois

    This cemetery is located on 9851 West Irving Park Road, Schiller Park, Cook County, Illinois. Find a Grave

  • Roosevelt University

    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...

  • Cook County Cemetery at Oak Forest

    Cook County Cemetery at Oak Forest This is the “daughter” cemetery of Cook County Cemetery at Dunning. (Also known as: Oak Forest Cemetery, Cook County Potters Field) Location: 159th and Crawford on Grounds of Oak Forest Hospital Oak Forest, Cook County, Illinois 60452 Bremen Township Section: 22 Township 36 Range: 13 Latitude/Longitude: 41°57'19.8"N 87°47'28.6"W Cemetery records at: Oa...

  • Cook County Cemetery at Dunning

    With over 38,000 burials spanning some seventy years, it served as an institutional cemetery for the Cook County institutions. These consisted of the County Poor house and farm opened 1854, the Insane Asylum opened 1869, the infirmary opened 1882, and the Consumptive hospital (TB), opened 1899 and was the official Cook County potters field serving the poor and indigent of the county. The cemete...

  • Cook County, Georgia

    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...

  • Concordia Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois

    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...

  • Columbia College Chicago

    Wikipedia Columbia College Chicago is a private college specializing in arts and media disciplines and located in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, it has 5,928 students pursuing degrees in more than 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.[5] It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Columbia College Chicago is the host institution of several affiliated educational, cultur...

  • Illinois Institute of Technology

    Wikipedia =Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting research university located in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design and law. It traces its history to several 19th century engineering and...

  • Christ Church Churchyard, Winnetka, Illinois

    A Brief History of Christ Church Churchyard (1836 – Today) by E. Smith Evidence suggests that, what is today Christ Church Churchyard, has been used as a burial ground for close to 200 years. The first known burials which occurred on this site were those of Erastus and Lucia Patterson, father and daughter, who, along with Erastus' wife, Zeruah, were the first white inhabitants of the area in ...

  • Northeastern Illinois University

    Wikipedia =Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public state university located in Chicago, Illinois. NEIU serves 10,000 students in the region and is a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution. The main campus is located in the community area of North Park with three additional campuses in the metropolitan area. NEIU has one of the longest running free form community radio sta...

  • Chapel Hill Gardens South, Oak Lawn, Illinois

    The cemetery is located on 11333 South Central Avenue, Oak Lawn, Cook County, Illinois. It's also known as Sleepy Hollow Memorial Garden . Find a Grave

  • Central YMCA College

    Central YMCA College was a college operated by the YMCA in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded prior to or in 1922. and was accredited in 1924. It was closed in 1945 after the university president and a large majority of the faculty and students left to form what became Roosevelt University. Central YMCA Community College opened in the fall of 1961 and operated until June 1982. It...

  • Cedar Park Cemetery, Calumet Park, Illinois

    This cemetery has existed since about WWI and was originally a Masonic cemetery. It is very well maintained and still active, with a funeral home on the property. One very unique fact about this cemetery. It is surrounded by a wrought iron fence, with deer and ducks within the cemetery. Any time you visit you can see deer roaming the grounds, and there is a pond for the ducks. Address: 12540 S...

  • Brushy Creek Cemetery, Adel, Georgia

    The cemetery is located on 430 Brushy Creek Church Road, Adel, Cook County, Georgia. Find a Grave

  • Bluff City Cemetery, Elgin, Illinois

    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...

  • Beverly Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois

    The cemetery, established in the early 1920s, is located on 12033 Kedzie Avenue, Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois. Find a Grave

  • DePaul University

    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...

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