Irving Park Cemetery

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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

  1. ^ "Irving Park Cemetery". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ a b Graveyards of Chicago
  3. ^ "History – Irving Park Cemetery". Archived from the original on 2013-01-22.
  • Official website Archived 2014-03-08 at the Wayback Machine