Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago
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Confederate Mound

Oak Woods Cemetery was established in 1854 – five years earlier than Rosehill and Calvary – on an area of 74 ha (183 acres) located at 1035 E. 67th Street in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The first burials took place in 1860 and during the American Civil War, six thousand Confederate soldiers, prisoners of war who died at Camp Douglas (Chicago), were buried together here in a mass grave. Known as the Confederate Mound (see picture), a monument has been erected in their memory.

Notable burials

• Cap Anson (1852-1922), Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player
• Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), social reformer, civil rights activist
• James Colosimo (1877-1920), mafioso, "Big Jim" Colosimo
• William Craig (1855-1902), first secret Service agent to die on duty
• Charles S. Deneen (1863-1940), politician
• Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993), composer, the "father of gospel music"
• Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), physicist
• Jake Guzik (1886-1956), gangster, "Greasy Thumb"
• William Draper Harkins (1873-1951), nuclear chemist
• Monroe Heath, mayor of Chicago
• Charles Johnson (1909-2006), pitcher and outfielder for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro League
• John Christen Johansen (1876-1964), portraitist and landscape painter
• Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866-1944), Hall of Fame, First Commissioner of Baseball
• Richard Loeb(June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), crime figure
• Little Brother Montgomery (1906-1985), blues piano player and singer
• Jesse Owens (1913-1980), Olympic track and field champion
• J. Young Scammon (1812-1890), attorney, banker, newspaper publisher
• Maud Slye (1879 - 1954), University of Chicago pathologist
• Roebuck 'Pops' Staples (1915-2000), gospel singer
• Bill Veeck (1914-1986), Major League Baseball owner
• William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago
• Harold Washington (1922-1987), lawyer, politician, first African American Mayor of Chicago
• Junior Wells (1934-1998), blues musician
• James Hutchinson Woodworth, mayor of Chicago
• John H. Johnson, founder and publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines.
• Eugene Sawyer (1934-2008), second African-American mayor of Chicago (Mayor from 1987-1989).

See also

• List of United States cemeteries
• List of famous cemeteries
• List of mausoleums

External links

• Oak Woods Cemetery official website
• Oak Woods Cemetery at graveyards.com
• Photos of Oakwood Cemetery

Coordinates: 41°46′9″N 87°36′3″W / 41.76917, -87.60083