Graceland Cemetery in Chicago was designed by landscape architects and many wealthy Chicagoans purchased family plots in the 119 acre park-like burial grounds after it was built in 1860.
It is a beautiful place to go for a walk on an autumn day when the trees are decked out in their colorful leaves.
The garden cemetery offers a sense of history of the people who were responsible for building the great city of Chicago.
Here you can find the graves of architects that built the skyscrapers, famous private eyes like Pinkerton, baseball and boxing greats, like Ernie Banks and Jack Johnson who was the first Black heavyweight boxing champion There are inventors and merchants. You see the graves of people that city streets were named after. There are cemetery tours available
The leaves on the maple trees were stunning! It is such a beautiful time of the year to walk back through history.
I focused in this post on many of the beautiful trees, but I also have photos of many of the fascinating monuments that I will share soon.
