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Cook County Cemetery at Dunning

Memorials	:	4
Location	:	Dunning, Cook County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.9551980, -87.7910080
Description	:	Originally 20 acres and later expanded. An estimated 38,000 people were buried here including unidentified victims of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Potter's Field, the Cook County poor Farm, Insane Asylum and Chicago State Hospital, etc. Most of the cemetery has been plowed under and used for housing developments, a shopping mall and parking lot, etc. All that is left is an open space called the Read-Dunning memorial Park with a few fragments of grave markers. No new burials have been added here since sometime in the 1920's. From 1911-1970 Cook County also buried indigent people at the Oak Forest Cemetery and... Read More	Originally 20 acres and later expanded. An estimated 38,000 people were buried here including unidentified victims of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Potter's Field, the Cook County poor Farm, Insane Asylum and Chicago State Hospital, etc. Most of the cemetery has been plowed under and used for housing developments, a shopping mall and parking lot, etc. All that is left is an open space called the Read-Dunning memorial Park with a few fragments of grave markers. No new burials have been added here since sometime in the 1920's. From 1911-1970 Cook County also buried indigent people at the Oak Forest Cemetery and since then at Archer Woods (1970-1979) and Homewood Memorial Gardens since 1980. These people do not have grave markers.

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Where is Cook County Cemetery at Dunning?
Cook County Cemetery at Dunning is located at West Belle Plaine Avenue Dunning, Cook County ,Illinois ,USA.
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3 memorials
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Latitude: 41.9551980
Longitude: -87.7910080

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1. Mount Olive Cemetery
Chicago, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9494019, -87.7913971

2. Zion Gardens, Inc.
Chicago, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9463997, -87.7949982

3. Irving Park Cemetery
Chicago, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9519997, -87.8219986

4. Union Ridge Cemetery
Chicago, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9803009, -87.7956009

5. Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum
Norwood Park Township, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9538994, -87.8268967

6. Westlawn Cemetery
Norridge, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9578018, -87.8272018

8. Saint Joseph Cemetery
River Grove, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9345000, -87.8386100

11. Josette Beaubien Burial Site
Franklin Park, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9417640, -87.8536300

12. Saint Luke Cemetery
Chicago, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9775009, -87.7331009

14. Montrose Cemetery
Chicago, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9795680, -87.7287910

18. Ridge Lawn Cemetery
Chicago, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9862400, -87.7286600

21. Eden Memorial Park
Schiller Park, Cook County, USA
Coordinate: 41.9536018, -87.8732986