This Chicago and Cook County Cemetery list is a thumbnail reference of the cemeteries and burial grounds within the present boundaries of Cook County. Unlike other cemetery sources and lists, this site will include those cemeteries that are endangered, abandoned, or have vanished. In addition there are many cross references to cemeteries that have been known by more than one name.
All of these cemeteries will eventually appear in greater detail as blog posts where you will find historical information and much more.
Cemeteries that have already appeared in posts contain a link which will take you directly to the relevant blog post.
Palatine Cemetery
(See Palatine Township index for choices)
Palos Hills Memorial Gardens
Lemont Township (See Mt. Vernon Memorial Park)
Palos Hills Memorial Park
(See Mt. Vernon Memorial Park)
Palos Oak Hill Cemetery
- (Also known as: Oak Knoll Cemetery, Briar Hill Cemetery)
- South side of 131st Street, 1 block east of Southwest Highway
- An early account shows the location then to have been 5th and west 27th street.
- Palos Park, Cook County, Illinois 60462 Palos Township
- Section: 34 Township 37 Range: 12
- Open: 1863 or earlier
Park Ridge Cemetery
Park Ridge Maine Township
(See Town of Maine Cemetery)
Parkholm Cemetery
- (Also known as: LaGrange Cemetery, Oak Hill Cemetery)
- 2501 South LaGrange Road (Mannheim), east side of La Grange Road,
- LaGrange Park, Cook County, Illinois 60525 Proviso Township
- Section: 28 Township 39 Range: 12
- Open: 1846
Passionist Fathers Cemetery
Chicago – Norwood Park Township (See Immaculate Conception Cemetery)
Pastor Wunder’s Kirchof Churchyard
Chicago – Lakeview Township (See Wunder’s Churchyard )
Paupers Cemetery
(See Cook County Cemetery)
Cook County Cemetery at Dunning
Plum Grove Cemetery
- (Also known as: Salem Ceemtery, Salem Evangelical Church Cemetery, (German Methodist))
- northeast corner of Plum Grove Road at Kirchoff Road
- (between Kirchoff and Euclid Road)
- Palatine, Cook County, Illinois 60067 Palatine Township
- Section: 26 Township 42 Range: 10 42 05 273n 88 02 592w
- Open: 1862
Plum Grove Cemetery (old)
- Vanished
- (Also known as: Lost Plum Grove Cemetery and Wolfrum Cemetery)
- NW of Sunset Drive & Brookview Lane, west of Rolling Meadows Lane.
- Palatine, Cook County, Illinois 60067 Palatine Township
- Section: 34 Township 42 Range: 10
- Open: 1840
Polish Catholic Parish of All Saints
(See All Saints Polish)
Polish Cemetery ‑ Norwood Park
Niles – Niles Township (See Saint Adalbert’s)
Polish Roman Catholic Association of All Saints
Cemetery
(See All Saints Polish)
Polish National All Saints Park Ridge
Leyden Township (See All Saints Polish National Cemetery)
Poor House Cemetery
Chicago Jefferson Township (See Cook County Cemetery)
Cook County Cemetery at Dunning
Poor House Cemetery‑New Grounds
Jefferson Township Chicago (See Cook County Cemetery‑New Grounds)
Cook County Cemetery at Dunning
Potters Field
Tinley Park Bremen Township (See Bill Funk’s Cemetery)
Potters Field (for Cook County)
Many, if not most cemeteries have or have had some space reserved for pauper or potters field burials. Several cemeteries are primarily pauper cemeteries or have had potters field contracts with the county to bury the indigent.
If you are looking to find someone who might have been buried under pauper circumstances, consider the following cemeteries.
Before c. 1870 City Cemetery
1851-1912 Cook County Cemetery at Dunning OLD GROUNDS (Jefferson)
Cook County Cemetery at Dunning
1912-about 1922 Cook County Cemetery NEW GROUNDS
Cook County Cemetery at Dunning
1912-1970 Cook County Cemetery at Oak Forest
circa 1912-1970 Saint Gabriel’s (Catholic)
circa 1912-1970 Ebenezer ( Lutheran)
circa 1970‑ Archer Woods (Contract with County)
various years – Homewood Memorial Gardens (Contract with County)
circa 2017- Mt. Olivet
Note: Some Cook County pauper burials were sent to Gary Indiana
Presbyterian Cemetery
Chicago Heights 60411 Bloom Township (See Bloom Pres. Cemetery)
Protestant Cemetery
Chicago Lake View Township (See City Cemetery or Wunders)
Proviso Cemetery
Proviso Township
- · Vanished
- Southeast corner of 22nd and Wolf Roads
- Section: NW 1/4 29 Township 32 Range: 12
- Hillside, Cook County, Illinois 60162 Proviso Township
Proviso Church Cemetery
Hillside (See Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery)
Queen of Heaven Cemetery
- 1400 South Wolf Road
- Hillside, Cook County, Illinois 60162
- Proviso Township Section: 19 Township 39 Range: 12
- Open: 1947
Randhill Park Cemetery
- Wilke and Rand Road (Route 12)
- Palatine, Cook County, Illinois 60067 Wheeling Township
- Section: SW 1/4 7 Township 42 Range: 11
- Open: 1924
Reformed Church of Northfield Cemetery
Northfield Twp (Also known as Union Cemetery)
(See Northfield Union Cemetery)
Resthaven Cemetery
- East side of Division street, north of Irving Park Road
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60666
- Addison Twp/DuPage Township
- Section: E 1/2 NE 1/4 13 Township 40 Range: 11
- Opened: 1837 Dedicated 1840, New addition 1920, Rededicated 1986
Restvale Cemetery
- west side of Laramie Avenue at 117th Street
- Alsip, Cook County, Illinois 60658
- Worth Township
- Section: E 1/2 SW 1/4 21 Township 37 Range: 13
- Open: about 1919
Resurrection Cemetery
- 7200 South Archer Road
- Justice, Cook County, Illinois 60459
- Lyons Township
- Section: 26 Township 38 Range: 12
Reverend Wunder’s Churchyard
Chicago Lakeview Township (See Wunder’s Churchyard)
Rhodenburg Cemetery
Schaumburg Township (See Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery)
Rich Cemetery
(See White Cemetery)
Ridgelawn Cemetery
- (Also known as: North Park Cemetery Company Inc.)
- 5736 North Pulaski (Originally North Fortieth Avenue)
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60646 Jefferson Township
- Section: 3 Township 40 Range: 13
- Open: 1887
Ridgeville Cemetery
- Vanished
- (Also known as: Evanston Graveyard)
- Northwest corner Ridge & Greenleaf
- Evanston, Cook County, Illinois 60202 Evanston Township
- Section: W 1/2 NW 1/4 19 Township 41 Range: 14
- Open: 1846
Ridgewood Cemetery
- (Also known as: Ridgewood Cemetery Company)
- 9900 North Milwaukee Avenue
- Des Plaines, Cook County, Illinois 60016 Maine Township
- Section: 10 Township 41 Range: 12
- Open: 1922
River Burying Ground
Chicago (See Common Acre on the West Bank)
Robinson Family Burial Ground
- Endangered
- (Also known as: Indian Cemetery, Old Indian Cemetery)
- Northwest corner of Lawrence & East River Road
- Schiller Park, Cook County, Illinois 60176 Leyden Township
- Section: SE 1/4 10 Township 40 Range: 12
- Open: 1872 or earlier
Robinson’s Grove Burying Ground
- Vanished
- Bounded by Vermont, Western, Grove and Artesian (Henry Street)
- Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois 60406
- Worth Township
- Section: SE 1/4 NE 1/4 36 Township 37 Range: 13
- Open: 1849 or earlier
Rodenburg Cemetery
(See Saint John’s Cemetery ‑ Rodenburg)
Roes Hill
(See Rosehill Cemetery)
Rosehill Cemetery
An Elevator in a Cemetery!
- 5800 North Ravenswood Avenue
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60660 Lakeview Township
- Section: 6 & 7 Township 40 Range: 14
- Opened: 1859
Rosemont Park Cemetery
- Now part of Zion Gardens
- 6758 West Addison Street (3600 North)
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60634
- Jefferson Township
- Section: SW 1/4 NE 1/4 19 Township 40 Range: 13
- Open: 1902
Rowe Farm Family Burying Ground
- Vanished
- (Also known as: Geweke Farm, Biesner, Bisner Farm)
- Now on Forest Preserve Property
- Elk Grove Village, Cook County, Illinois 60007 Elk Grove Township
- Section: E 1/2 SE 1/4 19 Township 41 Range: 11
- Open: 1880 or before
Russell Family Burying Ground
- (Also known as: Ceperley, West, Reid, Squires, Wing family burial grounds)
- East side of Waukegan Road, 1/4 north of Willow Road
- Techny, Cook County, Illinois 60062 Northfield Township
- Section: SW 1/4 SE 1/4 14 Township 42 Range: 12
- Open: 1846 or earlier
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