As a frosty wind raked the fallen leaves, two visitors to the cemetery nestled down in the grass. They did not appear to be there to visit Leonard Peil, Florence A. McClenthen, Herman A. Poppenhusen — ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated area cemeteries. In May 1963, an estimated 2,000 people marched to Oak ...