Cemeteries in Illinois

A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.

This carved armchair marks the final resting place for two pals in the Chicago suburbs.

This graveyard is home to the so-called "Witch's Circle."

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.