An oasis in the middle of the city, Graceland Cemetery is a repository of classical funerary art. Many of the people who made Chicago what it is have been buried here, since they had the money they were able build their last destination with great gusto.
Summertime in Chicago | 2015
Graceland Cemetery | Part #1
Graves was one of the first settlers who, according to the inscription on the back of the polished black granite slab, “brought the first colony to Chicago, consisting of 13 families, arriving here July 15, 1831 from Ashtabula, Ohio, on the schooner Telegraph.” The bronze figure, “Eternal Silence,” was created in 1909 by sculptor Lorado Taft, whose monumental “Fountain of Time” stands at the west end of the University of Chicago Midway.
