Acacia Park Cemetery is located in

Norwood Park Township, Cook County, Illinois Norwood Park Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 26,385. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, Norwood Park Township covers an area of . Its ZIP Code is 6 ...

, just outside

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

. To its south, across Irving Park Road, is

Irving Park Cemetery Irving Park Cemetery is located at 7777 West Irving Park Road, in Chicago. Irving Park Cemetery performed its first interment in July 1918. Some of the victims of the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre are buried at Irving Park Cemetery. Notab ...

. On the north side, Acacia Park adjoins

Westlawn Cemetery Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Norridge, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois. The cemetery covers and roughly 46,000 people are buried there. Notable interments * Leonard S. Chess, record company executive * Virginia Lee Corbin, ...

; the gates in the fence dividing Acacia Park and Westlawn are usually open, allowing visitors to pass freely between them.

Notable burials

Johannes Anderson Johannes Seigfried Anderson (July 20, 1887 – April 15, 1950) was a Finnish-born U.S. Army soldier during World War I, and a Medal of Honor recipient. Biography Little is known of Anderson's early life, other than that he was born in Finlan ...

(1887–1950), World War I Congressional Medal of Honor recipient *

Ral Donner Ralph Stuart Emanuel Donner (February 10, 1943 – April 6, 1984) was an American rock and roll singer. He scored several pop hits in the United States, US in the early 1960s, and had a human voice, voice similar to Elvis Presley. His best known ...

(1943–1984), singer *

Red Faber Urban Clarence "Red" Faber (September 6, 1888 – September 25, 1976) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from through , playing his entire career for the Chicago White Sox. He was a member of the 1919 team but was no ...

(1888–1976), baseball player *

Irna Phillips Irna Phillips (July 1, 1901 – December 23, 1973) was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent and actress. She is best remembered for pioneering a format of the daytime soap opera in the United States geared specifically toward wo ...

(1901–1973), television producer *

Alvah Curtis Roebuck Alvah Curtis Roebuck (January 9, 1864 – June 18, 1948) was the co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Richard Warren Sears. Early life Alvah Curtis Roebuck was born on January 9, 1864, in Lafayette, Indiana. He began work ...

(1864–1948), co-founder of

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

. * Mike Royko (1932–1997), columnist * Mae Doelling Schmidt (1888–1965), pianist, composer, music educator

References

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