Date: May 6, 2001
Cemetery: Cook County Cemetery at Dunning
Established: 1851
Street: Irving Park and Narragansett Avenue
City: Chicago
Township:
County: Cook
State: IL
Nation: USA
Zip:
Nearby: Irving Park and Narragansett under Dunning Shopping
Center
Reached_by: Crossing_property-public
Location: Urban-developed
Land: Flat
Water: No
Features: Asphalt
Sign: No
Land Type: Public
Access:
Enclosure:
Gate:
Status: Abandoned
Size: Large
Unmarked graves: Yes
Gravestones: None
Broken gravestones: No
Toppled gravestones: No
Buried gravestones: Unsure
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: Unknown
Pollution problems: Unknown
Oldest grave: 1851 by Newspaper Articles
Newest grave: 1912 by Newspaper Articles
Association: Unsure
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Yes
Records location: The Press, Nov. 17, 1999 by Jennifer
Larsen-Reed - Dunning Memorial and others
Condition: Cemetery destroyed
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Owner: Business
Use: Commercial
Bordering: Commercial
Change:
Reason:
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Yes
Contacted:
Other Information
This cemetery has over 38,000 burials containing the remains of many
early residents of Chicago who died in the Cook County Hospital,
including a tuberculosis sanitarium and an asylum. The land was sold to
the state in 1912.The sad facts are that as late as 1989, residential
construction continued. Part of the cemetery is covered with a shopping
center and parking lot. I think it was assumed that these people would
not cause a concern because of their circumstances. Newspaper articles
indicate a memorial has been planned but to date nothing has happened.
Support
Reverend William Brauer
Submitted by:
name: Linda Walker
Email: linda804@earthlink.net
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