1910 Memorial Park on 110 Acres in Evergreen Park
3401 W 87th Street, Evergreen Park, IL 60805
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All Ages
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Free
Free. Active cemetery; respect posted hours and grieving families.
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Wheelchair OK
Paved cemetery roads through gardens and lawn sections
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Photos OK
Est. 1910 · Svend Lollesgard Memorial Park Design · 1910 Cemetery · Village of Churches
Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1910 on 110 acres in the village of Evergreen Park, Illinois, on Chicago's southern edge. The cemetery was developed by the LaSalle Sales Organization, a partnership between Max Guthman and Jacob Rothschild. Danish landscape architect Svend Lollesgard designed the grounds in the memorial-park style favored in the early twentieth century, with mature plantings, garden sections, and unmarked-lawn areas in place of dense upright stones.
The park-like design is best preserved in the Knollwood, Spring Grove, and Edgewood Gardens sections. As burial preferences changed over the twentieth century, the cemetery introduced upright monuments in other sections, and shrubs and hedges were added to create private alcoves around grouped markers.
Several religious congregations and institutions have dedicated sections within the cemetery, including sections for St Nicholas and Monument of Faith. The dense pattern of religious institutional sections has earned the cemetery the local nickname Village of Churches.
The cemetery remains active and is operated under the Dignity Memorial network. The Shadowlands frontmatter coordinates for this entry resolved to a point in Colorado rather than to the cemetery's actual Illinois location; the location's actual coordinates are in Evergreen Park, Cook County, Illinois.
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The Shadowlands entry for Evergreen Cemetery is unusually terse - a one-line account describing blue lights moving through the treetops and a woman in white seen flying above the markers. No newspaper archive, historical society, or paranormal-investigation source corroborates either element specifically at this cemetery.
The broader context for the report is the dense memorial-park canopy created by Lollesgard's 1910 design. The mature trees produce sustained dappled lighting effects after dark, particularly under moonlight, and the cemetery's lawn-and-flush-marker sections contribute to a low, planar horizon that any passing reflection or vehicle-headlight artifact could plausibly skim across.
Hauntbound includes the cemetery primarily for its documented landscape-architecture and cemetery-design value. Active cemetery; respect grieving families and posted hours.
Walk the 110 acres of cemetery grounds designed by Danish landscape architect Svend Lollesgard in 1910. The memorial-park sections in Knollwood, Spring Grove, and Edgewood Gardens retain the original park-like design.
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