Place:Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
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NameOak Woods Cemetery
TypeCemetery
Coordinates41.769444°N 87.599167°W
Located inChicago, Cook, Illinois, United States     (1853 - )


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Oak Woods Cemetery is a large lawn cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 1035 E. 67th Street, in the Greater Grand Crossing area of Chicago's South Side. Established on February 12, 1853, it covers .

Oak Woods is the final resting place of several famous Americans including Harold Washington, Ida B. Wells, Jesse Owens, and Enrico Fermi. It is also the setting for a mass grave and memorial for Confederate prisoners of war from Camp Douglas, called the Confederate Mound.

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