Oscar Meyer, the legendary purveyor of meats currently resides at 5800 N. Ravenswood in Rosehill Cemetary. Hey! that’s right by my house! Montgomery Ward and John G. Shedd un-live there too!

Old Mayor Daley is in Worth at Holy Sepulchure…I’ve driven by it hundreds of times and never known that. For some reason I assumed he would be at Mount Carmel with Al Capone.

Did you know he died mere hours after attending a function in an official capacity as Mayor? (I think it was the ribbon cutting for a park or something.)

Jesse Owens, Enrico Fermi, and a whole bunch of Civil War soldiers (from both sides) are buried at Oak Woods Cemetery near the site of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition on the south side of Chicago. I find it odd that Jesse Owens (he grew up in Alabama and Ohio and achieved initial fame on the track team at Ohio State) would be buried in Chicago in a cemetery with thousands of confederate soldiers (they’re there because there was a prison camp on that site during the war.)