Rosehill Cemetery
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Rosehill Cemetery Overview

Located north of Bowmanville and west of Andersonville, Rosehill Cemetery is the largest and oldest cemetery in Chicago, and one of the oldest in the country. Along with Graceland Cemetery, it is Chicago's most prestigious final resting place. Among others, some of the notables buried here include Richard Sears, Montgomery Ward, Jack Brickhouse, John G. Shedd, Leo Burnett, Oscar Mayer, U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes, and a dozen former Chicago mayors. Also laid to rest here are hundreds of Union soldiers who were killed in combat during the Civil War.