Revisit chapters of Chicago's history, old train routes, trappers, taverns, food markets, bridges, tunnels, the Republican convention of Abraham Lincoln and the Great Chicago Flood. Tour involves climbing several flights of stairs. Study residential architecture along Lake Shore Drive and in the Astor Street Historic District, including elegant homes in Romanesque, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Art Deco, and Modern styles. Learn about the remarkable people who lived here and about the events that occurred in this gracious and exclusive enclave. Many famous figures from Chicago's social, political, and architectural history are buried in this park-like cemetery.
Parking is available inside the cemetery.
A Second Look Explore an older section of this historic 1861 garden cemetery. See unusual Victorian monuments and sentimental epitaphs while visiting grave sites of early Chicago mayors, artists, and other prominent citizens. Parking is available inside the cemetery. View the architecturally significant redevelopment of the central business district. Proceed along winding, wooded, residential streets, set among ravines and moraines, dotted with examples of work by numerous historically significant architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, W.W. Boyington, Robert E. Seyfarth, Joseph Lyman Silsbee, and Howard van Doren Shaw.