Irving Park Cemetery

Irving Park Cemetery
Irving Park Cemetery
	The front gates of Irving Park Cemetery
Details
Established	1918
Location	Chicago, Illinois
Country	United States
Coordinates	41°56′59″N 87°49′23″W / 41.94972°N 87.82306°W
Owned by	Dignity Memorial
Find a Grave	Irving Park Cemetery

Irving Park Cemetery is located at 7777 West Irving Park Road, in Chicago.^[2]

Irving Park Cemetery performed its first interment in July 1918.^[3] Some of the victims of the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre are buried at Irving Park Cemetery.^[2]

Notable burials

Kay Armen – (1915–2011), singer and actress
Carmel Henry Carfora – (1878–1958), bishop of the Old Catholic church
Fred Goetz – (1897–1934), organized crime figure
Frank Gusenberg – (1893–1929), organized crime figure
Peter Gusenberg – (1888–1929), organized crime figure
Albert Kachellek – (1890–1929), organized crime figure

References

^ "Irving Park Cemetery". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ ^a ^b Graveyards of Chicago
^ "History – Irving Park Cemetery". Archived from the original on 2013-01-22.

External links

Official website Archived 2014-03-08 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "Irving Park Cemetery". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

[GoC-2] Graveyards of Chicago

[3] "History – Irving Park Cemetery". Archived from the original on 2013-01-22.

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