- Queen of Heaven Cemetery
Queen of Heaven Cemetery is a
Roman Catholic cemetery in Hillside,Illinois , a suburban community nearChicago . The cemetery is operated by theArchdiocese of Chicago .Queen of Heaven is located at Wolf and
Roosevelt Road s, near the Eisenhower Expressway (Interstate 290), and is adjacent to two other cemeteries. One is another Catholic cemetery named Mount Carmel Cemetery, and the other is the secularOakridge Glen Oaks Cemetery .Queen of Heaven was consecrated in
1947 . The cemetery maintained its own office until1965 , when operations were combined with neighboring Mount Carmel Cemetery. Currently, the cemetery is convert|472|acre|km2 in size, and there are currently over 122,451 people buried there. There are approximately 3,215 annual interments at Queen of Heaven.In addition to regular graves, Queen of Heaven was the first area cemetery to have religious shrine sections. One of these is the "Shrine of the Holy Innocents," where young victims of the 1958
Our Lady of the Angels School Fire are interred. In these sections families could purchase plots for all its members all at once, and not incur future charges.Queen of Heaven
Mausoleum , adjacent to the cemetery, has 30,000 crypts and 64 columbarium niches. There is also a garden crypt complex, with 25,729 crypts and 720 columbarium niches.Legendary Master Puppeteer William B. Fosser is buried here. Former U.S. Representative
Frank Annunzio is also buried at Queen of Heaven, as is former football team owner Charles Bidwell.The mausoleum is also the infamous resting place of several
Al Capone henchmen includingSam Battaglia andPaul Ricca .External links
* [http://www.cathcemchgo.org Catholic Cemeteries of Chicago]
** [http://www.cathcemchgo.org/locations.php?id=14]
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