Genealogy Projects tagged with Forest Park on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois, USA

    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...

  • 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...

  • Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois

    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...