Whenever guests visit Chicago, I take them to three places: 1.) Oak Park to see the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio plus walking tour of Wright's creations; 2.) Millennium Park to see the fun and the Lurie Garden (designed by K. Gustafson & P. Oudolf & R. Israel; and 3.) Graceland Cemetery to experience the landscape work of the great landscape designer, O.C. Simonds and to learn Chicago history through the graves.
Last Friday I led a tour of Green Corps staff around the grounds. I could rhapsodize endlessly, but instead will just encourage you to go yourself...
Above: tree-like gravestone. Below: tree damage from recent storms. Below below: some of the Green Corps staff explores the island in Willowmere Pond where Daniel Burnham is buried.
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Cemeteries can be such amazing places. There's one in Brooklyn, Green-Wood, which is very beautiful, and houses lots of famous people, such as Boss Tweed, Horace Greeley and Leonard Bernstein.
I was lucky enough to visit Mt. Auburn outside Boston recently, Altoon. Graceland graves include Louis Sullivan, Meis van de Rohe, John Peter Altgeld (Governor of IL who pardoned Haymarket "Rioters"), the infamous George Pullman and my father, Arthur Siegel.
Where are the Haymarket "rioters" buried?
I have not been, but apparently the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is in the German Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois. Emma Goldman & Lucy Parsons are buried there, so worth a trip?
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