Notable Burials
- David Adler, architect
- John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois
- Philip Danforth Armour, meat packing magnate
- Mary Hastings Bradley, author
- Daniel H. Burnham, architect
- Fred A. Busse, mayor of Chicago
- Justin Butterfield
- Members of the William Deering family
- Augustus Dickens, brother of Charles Dickens (he died penniless in Chicago)
- George Elmslie, architect
- Marshall Field, businessman, retailer, whose memorial was designed by Henry Bacon, with sculpture by Daniel Chester French.
- Bob Fitzsimmons, Heavyweight boxing champion, born in Cornwall, UK
- Melville Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Elbert H. Gary, judge, chairman of U.S. Steel
- Bruce A. Goff, architect
- Carter Harrison, Sr., mayor of Chicago
- Carter Harrison, Jr., mayor of Chicago
- Herbert Hitchcock, US Senator from South Dakota
- William Holabird, architect
- Henry Honore, businessman
- William Hulbert, president of baseball's National League
- William Le Baron Jenney, Architect, Father of the American skyscraper
- Jack Johnson, first African-American heavyweight boxing champion
- Fazlur Khan, structural engineer
- William Kimball, Kimball Piano and Organ Company
- John Kinzie, Canadian pioneer, first white settler in the city of Chicago
- Cornelius Krieghoff, well-known Canadian artist
- Victor F. Lawson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News
- Frank Lowden, Governor of Illinois
- Marion Mahony Griffin, architect
- Cyrus McCormick, businessman, inventor
- Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Daughter-in-law of reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick
- Maryland Mathison Hooper McCormick, second wife of Col. Robert R. McCormick
- Nancy “Nettie” Fowler McCormick, businesswoman, philanthropist
- Joseph Medill, publisher, mayor of Chicago
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, influential photographer, teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and Institute of Design IIT in Chicago
- Walter Netsch, architect
- Richard Nickel, photographer, architectural historian and preservationist
- Ruth Page, dancer and choreographer
- Bertha Palmer, philanthropist
- Francis W. Palmer, newspaper printer, U.S. Representative, Public Printer of the United States
- Potter Palmer, businessman
- Allan Pinkerton, detective
- George Pullman, inventor and railway industrialist
- John Wellborn Root, architect
- Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect
- Louis Sullivan, architect
- Frederick Wacker, politician
- Kate Warne, first female detective, Allan Pinkerton employee
- Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon who performed one of the first successful operations on the pericardium
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