CHICAGO: Cook County

CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA

Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois. Contact information

SYNAGOGUES:

• Jewish.com [2000]
• Jewish Chicago [2000]

Chicago Historical Society

Jewish Chicago [December 2000]

Directions and Addresses at Chicago Jewish Funeral Homes: Illinois State Genealogical Society Cemetery Location Project

Funeral Homes in Chicagoland including:

• Furth and Company, 312-784-4300, 5206 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640 (other locations in Chicago area)
  Lloyd Mandel Levayah Funerals, 847-679-3939, 4750 Dempster, Skokie, IL 60076
  Piser Weinstein Menorah Chapels, 312-561-4740, 5206 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640. Other locations in Chicagoland area. They supplied much of the information below.
  Robert A. Weinstein Funeral Directors Ltd., 847-568-6000, 6677 N. Lincoln Ave, Suite 310, Lincolnwood, IL
  Weinstein Brothers, 842-256-5700, 111 Skokie Blvd., Wilmette, IL (other locations in Chicago area and Florida)
  Chicago Jewish Funerals, Ltd., 305 West Dundee Road, Buffalo Grove, IL. 60089; Toll Free: 888-509-5011;
  The only locally owned Jewish service in Jewish Chicagoland Source: David Jacobson, owner
  May have information: AJA. American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488. 513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail: AJA contact form

Cemeteries Located on the South Side:

• BEVERLY CEMETERY: S. Kedzie & 119th St. Phone: 708. 422. 9051, 8700 S. Kedzie Evergreen Park, IL. 60805,  [November 2002] 12000 S Kedzie Ave, Blue Island, IL 60406 | 708-385-0750.
  

  Burials from the following synagogues: Congregation Am Echad, Anshe Sholom, Congregation Beth Sholom, Temple B'nai Yeduda. Most of the Jewish burials are in section #11. The records are not computerized and are organized alphabetically. Call the office for information regarding a specific individual.

• EVERGREEN CEMETERY-Court of David Section: Phone: 708. 422. 9051, 8700 S. Kedzie Evergreen Park, IL. 60805, directions [November 2002] Jewish burials are in the Court of David section. Many individuals from the Drexel Home for the Aged are buried here in a different section. Records are not computerized.

1. Cong. Beth Jacob of Scottsdale
2. Cong. Kehilath Israel - Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol
3. Cong. Rodfei Sholom - Oir Chodesh
4. Cong. Shomer Hadas
5. Jewish War Veterans - South Section

• Lawn Manor Hebrew Cong. See OAK WOODS (Rodfei Zedek Section). Website: Mariampole/Anshe Shalom section: Contact Norman Schwartz.

  • Cong. Mariampoler - Anshe Sholom Kalvaria

  • Cong. Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol

    General Jewish Sections

• Oak Woods Cemetery: Phone: 773. 288. 3800, 1035 E. 67th Street Chicago, IL. 60637, Website
  directions [November 2002] Fax: 773-228-4960.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Total burials of about 200,000 dating from 1860. Many old burials in the section called "Jewish Oak Woods." Current Jewish burials are in  Eternal Light section. Congregation Rodfei Zedek has a section. Congregation Mariampoler-Anshe Sholom Kalvaria and Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodo burials. Genealogy requests only by written request with a $10 fee per request to "Attention Genealogy Department"
• Silverman & Weiss Cemeteries: see Waldheim

CEMETERIES LOCATED ON THE NORTHSIDE:

• Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum: Phone: 773. 625. 7800, 7800 Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL. 60634. Source: directions [November 2002] Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum is a mid-sized cemetery with a Masonic design. To its south, across Irving Park Road, is Irving Park Cemetery. On the north side, Acacia Park adjoins Westlawn Cemetery. Gates in the fence dividing Acacia Park and Westlawn are usually open with free access between them. Acacia Park Cemetery has very symmetrical and orderly. Two entrances along the south perimeter. A short distance north of each entrance is a small hill, each topped with a statue and obelisk bearing the Masonic symbol. Between the obelisks is a recessed garden leading to a mausoleum.
• Cemeteries Beth El and Ridgelawn Cemetery: Phone: 847.673.1584, 5736-5760 N. Pulaski Road , Chicago, IL. 60646 directions [November 2002]  just north of Montrose. Mailing Address: 6807 N. East Prairie Road, Lincolnwood, IL 60712. This small and badly neglected section in a depression ringed with trees with most of the gravestones toppled has weeds, trash, (rusted barrels, oilcans, and piles of tree branches dumped. Close to an area where construction equipment and groundskeepers' trucks are kept, gravestones date from approximately 1895 to 1999. A fence  with a gate too narrow for a car separates the two main sections. Most of the older burials are in the rear. All headstones face east. Many use the words "At Rest" to indicate the date of death. Stone benches were a popular choice. A few pictures. Jewish burials are 3200+  from 1896 to the present. Groups include Temple Beth-El, Independent Order Brith Shalom, Star of David, Congregation B'nai Zion, Society of Benevolent & Relief of Sick, North Park Cemetery Assn., and Kobiner. Call for computerized records. [May 2011]
• B'nai B'rith Lodge Cemetery: see Rosemont Cemetery below. 6600 W. Addison, Chicago 60634; (773) 545-0044. Rosemont Park Cemetery, which includes four Jewish sections: Mt. Mayriv, Isaiah Israel, Bnai Jehoshua Beth Elohim, and Bnai Brith at 3600 North Narragansett Avenue in Chicago, was acquired by executives of the Waldheim Cemetery Company in April 2011.
• Chicago City Cemetery (defunct): see Rosemont below.
  
• JEWISH GRACELAND and Lakeview Cemetery: Jewish Graceland cemetery, established in 1851, is at 3919 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60613. Website. "Jewish Graceland" is the collective name of four cemeteries, originally under separate management [City Directory 1863, 1864] 3900 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60613. 312-409-4296. JGC Company, P.O. Box 13132, Chicago, IL 60613.  Genealogical records cannot be accessed by telephone. Send a letter to the mailing address with the names and death dates (if known) of individuals. Include a $35 research fee and a self-addressed stamped envelope. The check should be made out to Jewish Graceland-Lakeview. For historic information about the cemetery, contact the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois. Jewish burials from 1857 through 2000. Total Jewish burials are over 5000 with no non-Jewish burials. The cemetery is open by appointment only. Four sections make up the original Jewish Graceland Cemetery.
  • • Gate 1: B'nai Zion (654 burials). The North section (Gate 1) and the South section (Gate 4) are owned by Doris Wess-Ev
    • Gate 2: B'nai Shalom, KAM (948 burials). The two center sections (Gates 2 & 3) are owned by the Hebrew Benevolent Society
    • Gate 3: Hebrew Benevolent Society (1249 burials). The two center sections (Gates 2 & 3) are owned by the Hebrew Benevolent Society Hebrew Benevolent Society of Chicago
    • Gate 4: Chevra Kadisha (837 burials). The North section (Gate 1) and the South section (Gate 4) are owned by Doris Wess-Evon
    • Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery
    • Anshe Mayrev Cemetery of the Congregation of the Sons of Peace
    • Chebra Kadisha
    • Ubikar Cholm
    UPDATE: The Hebrew Benevolent Society, which operates the cemetery, is looking for descendants of those buried there in an attempt to preserve the cemetery and its records. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., President of the Hebrew Benevolent Society for ancstors buried at Jewish Graceland. [February 2002]
    UPDATE: Jewish Graceland Cemetery: As reported by the Chicago Sun Times [February 9, 2002]: "'The owner of the Jewish Graceland Cemetery Co. is trying to sell it, complete with graves, for $2.25 million, suggesting condos could be built there.'" This land could be redeveloped for R4 zoning regulations [residential units no higher than 38 feet] or continue to be used as a cemetery," says the real estate listing posted on behalf of owner Alexander Lichtenstadt-Partin. "Sold 'as is.' ""Removal of [Jewish] graves is considered a desecration. It is rarely done unless there is some real overriding issue such as if bodies were mistakenly buried. Or there are occasions where bodies are reburied in Israel," said Rabbi Joseph Ozarowski, executive director of the Chicago Rabbinical Council.
    Chicago has a long history of moving graves--and even renting them.* When Lincoln Park was created in 1870, about 20,000 bodies were moved from cemeteries at its south end to other cemeteries.* Among the Lincoln Park bodies were those of 6,000 Confederate soldiers who died of disease at the Camp Douglas prison on the South Side during the Civil War. They were reburied in the Confederate Mound in Oak Woods Cemetery on the Far South Side.* During the Great Depression, some graves were sold for 40 years, with the cemetery having the right to re-sell them after that time.* When workers began building the Eisenhower Expy. in 1954, they had to cut a swath through the Forest Home, Concordia and Waldheim cemeteries in Forest Park, forcing the relocation of about 3,250 graves.* In 1994, park district officials in New Lenox built a golf course on a 400-year-old Native American grave site, despite protests from Native Americans that the project was a desecration of their ancestors.*In 1996, the bodies of 170 people were moved to "consolidate" the Allerton Ridge Cemetery in Lombard so that nearly 30 acres could be used for commercial development.
    WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST TIME
    "I think it's reprehensible. It's a cemetery. It should be maintained as a cemetery," said Richard Marcus, lawyer for the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Chicago. It owns a separate cemetery flanked on the north and south by the two parcels that are for sale.The area popularly known as Jewish Graceland, a little south of Irving Park on the east side of Clark Street, came into existence in the mid-1800s. Originally four Jewish groups owned separate parcels, each a narrow strip running east to west. The Hebrew Benevolent Society has owned one strip since the 1890s, and took over management of another in 1997.The north and south parts at 3901 and 3931 N. Clark were incorporated in 1962 as Jewish Graceland Cemetery Co. Lichtenstadt-Partin, a former funeral director, was convicted in 1985 of indecent liberties with a minor and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 1994 he became the registered agent of Jewish Graceland Cemetery Co. In 1998, he and company vice president Gregory Donatelli outraged the Jewish community by proposing a pet cemetery on their land and a Halloween haunted cemetery. Donatelli since 2000 has been serving a 30-year sentence at the Danville Correctional Center as a Class X repeat offender for conviction of crimes including burglary, theft, armed robbery and aggravated battery. As of Friday, the cemetery company's answering machine still identified him as vice president. Contributing: Dave Newbart "
    Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.[May 2001] Source of additional information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. [September 2001]
  • UPDATE: Sheriff's Office Lends Hand. "(CBS) - Jewish Graceland Cemetery is believed to be the oldest Jewish cemetery in Chicago, but half of it is a tangle of trees, overgrown weeds and a campsite for the homeless.Half of the cemetery is owned by one family by Edie Eiseman and her sister Cathy Horwitz, and that half of the cemetery is in good shape.  They say they hate to see the other half the way it is."It's a Yiddish word you might not know. But it's a ‘shanda,' it's a shame. It's disrespectful," Edie Eiseman says.The earliest burial was in the 1850s.Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has had a crew of offenders out working there, in the 3900 block of North Clark, near Wrigley Field, mowing and trimming trees."We'll be able to get it in very good condition.  Then, once it's at that point, it'll be more of a maintenance thing. Someone's going to have to mow the lawn. Someone's going to have to take care of the trees that grow up," he says.The half of the cemetery that's getting all the attention now is owned by Doris Weiss-Evon. She says she's run out of money and wants to sell her half, but not to the sisters who own the other half, the well-kept half."No, I will not deal with them in any way, shape or form," Weiss-Evon says. Dart says he got involved after 44th Ward Ald. Tom Tunney contacted him because Tunney's office was getting complaints about the property.Tunney asked Dart to see if there was anything criminal going on - similar to what Dart's investigators have found at some other cemeteries - that would have led to half the Jewish cemetery being overgrown and untended.Dart says he doesn't see anything criminal there." May 2015]
• MT. ISAIAH ISRAEL: 6600 W. Addison St., 545-0044. See B'nai B'rith Cemetery. Mount Isaiah Israel p. Cemetery 04069 in Cemeteries of the US by Deborah M. Burek; ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3. Rosemont Park Cemetery, which includes four Jewish sections: Mt. Mayriv, Isaiah Israel, Bnai Jehoshua Beth Elohim, and Bnai Brith at 3600 North Narragansett Avenue in Chicago, was acquired by executives of the Waldheim Cemetery Company in April 2011.
• MT. JEHOSHUA: 6600 W. Addison St. Temple B'nai Jehoshua
• MT. MAYRIV: See Rosemont. 3600 N. Narragansett St, Chgo 60634. KAM Temple: (773) 545-000. Rosemont Park Cemetery, which includes four Jewish sections: Mt. Mayriv, Isaiah Israel, Bnai Jehoshua Beth Elohim, and Bnai Brith at 3600 North Narragansett Avenue in Chicago, was acquired by executives of the Waldheim Cemetery Company in April 2011.
• MONTROSE Cemetery: 5400 N. Pulaski, Chicago, IL 60630. Phone: 773-478-5400. Fax: 773-478-5550. The first Jewish burial was around 1921 with the most recent in 1991. Of over 83,000 total burials, only 75 are Jewish. The records are not computerized.
• Association: 6807 N. East Prairie Road, Lincolnwood, IL 60712. Phone: 847-676-1122, Fax: 847-676-1241. Over 1500 Jewish burial from @1898 to date.The records are computerized but only include the name of deceased but not the date of death.

• RIDGELAWN - BETH EL Cemeteries: 5736 N. Pulaski Rd., Chgo. 60646. Mail: c/o New Light Cemetery, 6807 N. East Prairie, Lincolnwood 60645; (847) 673-1584.Kobriner, Cong. B'nai Zion, Brith Sholom Cemetery Assn, Society of Benevolent & Relief of Sick, North Park Cemetery Assn

• ROSEHILL CEMETERY: Phone: 773. 561. 5900, 5800 N. Ravenswood Chicago, IL. 60660. Source for directions. directions [November 2002] The Jewish burials were the 1860s and to the present. 250,000+ burials with 25,000 to 30,000 Jewish. A very large number of Jewish burials are on the southern side of the main cemetery. Call for computerized records.

• ROSEMONT PARK CEMETERY: 6750 W. Addison St., Chicago 60634; (773) 736-2553. Rosemont Park Cemetery, which includes four Jewish sections: Mt. Mayriv, Isaiah Israel, Bnai Jehoshua Beth Elohim, and Bnai Brith at 3600 North Narragansett Avenue in Chicago, was acquired by executives of the Waldheim Cemetery Company in April 2011. All the burials are Jewish. Around 1998 B'nai B'rith (start 1887), B'nai Jehoshua (start 1899), Mt. Mayriv (start 1857) and Isaiah Israel (start 1886) cemeteries were all brought under the management of Rosemont Park (1933). KAM congregation members (start 1886) are also buried here.   Some of the oldest graves in Mt. Mayriv may have been from the first Jewish cemetery that was Chicago City Cemetery (in Lincoln Park). 150 graves were moved from the Chicago City Cemetery to the SW corner of Belmont and Clark in 1854 and moved again to Mt. Mayriv in 1889. A number of gravestones in F section at Mt Mayriv are almost undecipherable and may be these graves. The oldest date that could be read was a death date of 1857. The records are computerized.

• WESTLAWN MEMORIAL PARK and MAUSOLEUM: 7801 W. Montrose, Chicago 60634, (773) 625-8600. Phone: 773-625-8600. Fax: 773-625-8609. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 48,000+ Jewish burials from 1937 to date (about 500 per year.) Their records are computerized. The cemetery is willing to take photos of graves for you.

Cemeteries Located in the NORTHERN SUBURBS:

• MEMORIAL PARK: Phone: 847. 864. 5061, 9900 Gross Point Road, Skokie, IL. 60076. Source for directions. [November 2002]
  Anshe Emet Synagogue
  Beth Olam
  Makom Shalom
  Menorah Section
  Temple Mizpah
• NEW LIGHT SOCIETY CEMETERY: Phone: 847 673-1584. 6807 N. East Prairie, Lincolnwood, IL. 60645, Source for directions [November 2002]
  Pratt Blvd. & East Prairie Rd.; See: p. 04073 in Cemeteries of the US, Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3
• SHALOM MEMORIAL PARK: Phone: 847 255-3520 or (773) 274-2236, 1700 W. Rand Road Arlington Heights , IL. 60004, Source for directions. [November 2002] Rand Rd. & Rte. 53. See p. 04098 in Cemeteries of the US, Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3.
  Am Shalom, Glencoe
  A.G.Beth Israel, Peterson Park
  Bene Shalom of H.A.D., Skokie
  Beth AM, Wheeling
  Beth El of East Rogers Park
  Beth Emet, The Free Synagogue, Evanston
  Beth Hillel, Wilmette
  Beth Judea, Buffalo Grove
  Beth Or, Deerfield
  Beth Shalom, Northbrook
  Beth Sholom, Rogers Park
  Beth Tikvah, Hoffman Estates
  Bnai David, Budlong Woods
  Bnai Emunah, Skokie
  Bnai Shalom, Albany Park
  Bnai Tikvah, Deerfield
  Bnai Torah, Highland Park
  Bnai Zion, Rogers Park
  Central Synagogue of South Side Hebrew Congregation, Chicago
  Etz Chaim, Lombard
  Esras Israel, Rogers Park
  Hakafa North Shore
  Jewish War Veterans Department of Illinois
  Kehilat Jeshurun, Albany Park
  K.I.N.S Rogers Park
  Kol Ami, Chicago
  Kol Emeth, Skokie
  Labor Zionist Alliance of Illinois
  Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation
  Maine Township, Des Plaines
  Mizrachi, Chicago
  Ner Tamid, Northtown
  Niles Township, Skokie
  North Shore Congregation Israel, Glencoe
  North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, Highland Park
  Northwest Suburban Jewish Congregation, Morton Grove
  Or Shalom, Libertyville
  Shaare Tikvah, Hollywood Park
  Skokie Central Traditional Congregation
  Skokie Valley Traditional Congregation
  Solel, Highland Park
  Temple Beth El, West Rogers Park
  Temple Beth Israel, Albany Park
  Temple Chai, Buffalo Grove
  Temple Judea Mizpah, Skokie
  Temple Menorah, West Rogers Park
• Sunset Memorial Lawns: Phone: 847. 724. 0669, 3100 Shermer Road Northbrook, IL. 60062. Source for directions: directions [November 2002]

Cemeteries Located on the WEST SIDE:

• B'nai Brith: see Rosemont Park Cemetery
• GLEN OAK CEMETERY: 4301 W. Roosevelt Road, Hillside, IL 60162. Phone: 708-344-5600. Fax: 708-344-5655. Jewish burials from 1929 to date. Total burials are approximately 100,000 of which less than 20% are Jewish. Groups also include Oak Park Temple (Harlem Avenue, Oak Park-Reform) and West Suburban Temple Har Zion (Harlem Avenue, River Forest-Conservative) , Jewish War Vets, Chevra Kadisha, Bella & Sarah Dicker Aid Society, Chevra Kadisha Ezras Nicochim, Federal Fellowship Club, Jewish Brotherhood, Lawn Manor Jewish Community Center, Southtown Hebrew Cong., and Yarmo-Devere Post American Legion. The records are partially computerized.
• Jewish Oakridge/Glen Oak Cemetery: 4301 Roosevelt Rd. 1/4 mi. west of LaGrange Rd., Hillside, IL. Phone: 708. 344. 5600. 4301 W. Roosevelt Road, Hillside, IL. 60162 Source: directions [November 2002]  Bella & Sarah Dicker Aid Society (708) 344-5600
  Chevra Kadisha Ezras Nicochim
  Federal Fellowship Club
  Jewish Brotherhood
  Lawn Manor Jewish Community Center
  Southtown Hebrew Cong.
  Yarmo-Devere Post American Legion
• MENORAH GARDENS: Phone: 708. 366. 4541, 2630 S. 17th Avenue Broadview, IL. 60153, directions [November 2002]
  Agudath Achim Anshei Chaltenhem Cong.
  Belilovker (United Sid Society)
  Bogopolier Aid Society
  Brichonner Bessarabier ASSN
  Chernigov Progressive Verein
  Cee Ynkiver & Vicinity Section
  Dubossarrer Dis. Ben. Society
  Graiever Cemetery ASSN
  Independent Sick Benefit
  Kremnitzer Beneveloent Society
  Logower Aid Society
  Lohishin Nusach Stard Delibashon
  Mezeritzer Progressive Society
  Mogelef Podolsk & Vicinity ASSN
  Nickolaver Cemetery ASSN
  North West Side Retail Fruit Peddlers ASSN
  Nusach Arie of Albany Park Cong.
  Pereyaslover Club of Chicago
  Iran Hebrew Cong. (or Persian Hebrew)
  Polatzker Benevolent Cemetery ASSN
  Radmonishler Unter. Verein
  Shedlitzer & Vicinity Society
  Umaner Progressive Verein Cemetery ASSN
  Workmen's Circle Cem. ASSN
  Wyshkover Progressive Unter. Verein
  Ziditshover Cemetery ASSN
• Mt. Jehoshua: see Rosemont Park Cemetery
• Mt. Mayriv: see Rosemont Park Cemetery
• Rosemont Park Cemetery: Phone: 773. 736. 2553, 6758 W. Addison, Chicago, IL. 60634. Source for directions [November 2002]
• ?Temple Emanuel Cemetery: Forest Park, IL:
• WESTLAWN CEMETERY: Phone: 847. 625. 8600, 7801 W. Montrose Norridge, IL. 60634, Source for directions [November 2002] Their records are computerized and can be best accessed by telephoning them. Genealogy related question should be addressed to Krista Zadlo, Assistant General Manager and should contain as much information as possible. There are limited resources to address these questions and the staff can address them better in winter. The cemetery is willing to take photos of graves and send them to you.
• Anshe Drohizcin Cemetery: A largely cosmetic/education effort to restore an Anshe Drohizcin Cemetery near Chicago is being done by the Federation. If interested, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Chicago. [April 2003]

JEWISH WALDHEIM CEMETERIES:

tombstone images online. A fee charged. [April 2010]

• Waldheim Cemetery: 1400 S. Des Plaines, Forest Park 60130 (708-366-4541).
• Numerous photos have been stolen from gravestones in the Rezhnoy section and others, possibly for scrap metal. Photo of this theft. [May 2009]
• REFERENCE: Jewish Waldheim Cemetery p. 04059 (also see section 2 below) in Cemeteries of the US, Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3.
• The office has computerized records and will answer inquiries when given as much information as possible including age, date of death, names of people possibly buried with them, etc. Request for more than 3 lookups will incur a nominal charge. Website: Notes on a few of the sections:
  Cemeteries No. 1-33 are west of Des Plaines Road starting at Roosevelt Road and going south.
  Cemeteries No. 34-62 are east of Des Plaines Road starting at Greenberg Road and going north.
  Cemeteries No. 63-83 are entered from Roosevelt Road, west of Des Plaines Road
  Cemeteries No. 84-129 are entered through Greenberg Rd., west of the railroad tracks, via Des Plaines Road.
  Cemeteries No. 200 and up are entered from Harlem Ave at the 18th St. entrance.
  Shomer Hadas (Chevra) No.1 is located at 863 S. Des Plaines Road, Forest Park.
  Cemetery names are alphabetical by commonly accepted names and are not necessarily their correct incorporated names.
  KEY FOR THE FOLLOWING:
  FS - Free Sons of Israel Cemetery Association: 1600 S. Des Plaines, Forest Park; (708) 366-1190. See p. 04053 in Cemeteries of the US, Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3
  J - Barnett Joseph and Son
  L - Lebovitz and Company
  S - S. Schwarzbach & Company
  SW - Silverman and Weiss: 1303 S. Des Plaines Road, Forest Park, IL 60130. (708) 366-0125
  W - Jewish Waldheim Cemetery
  Jewish Waldheim Cemeteries with entry from either Roosevelt Road, Des Plaines Road or Greenberg Rd:

• Jewish Waldheim Cemeteries with entry via Harlem Avenu
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