Mies van der Rohe's grave marker in Graceland Cemetery

After cremation, his ashes were buried near Chicago's other famous architects in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.

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Harrison was buried in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.

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Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. ( April 23, 1860, Chicago, Illinois-December 25, 1953 ; buried in Graceland Cemetery ) served as Mayor of Chicago ( 1897 – 1905 and 1911 – 1915 ).

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Pinkerton's Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

Pinkerton is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

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Elvis Presley was originally buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, the resting place of his backing band's bassist, Bill Black, but after an attempted grave robbing, his body was moved to the grounds of Graceland.

* Graceland Cemetery Biography

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* The Crusader ( sculpture ), a Lorado Taft sculpture in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery

John Kinzie's grave in Graceland Cemetery

When the cemetery was closed for the development of Lincoln Park, Kinzie's remains were moved to Graceland Cemetery.

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He was buried next to Etta Duryea Johnson at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.

In 1850, a township called Ridgeville was organized, extending from Graceland Cemetery in Chicago to the southern edge of the Ouilmette Reservation, along what is now Central Street, and from Lake Michigan to Western Avenue in Chicago.

He is buried on an island with his family under granite boulders in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

Also on that journey were several families who remained in the still raw settlement that would become Chicago, including that of Dexter Graves who is memorialized in Graceland Cemetery by the well-known Lorado Taft statue " Eternal Silence " ( also known as " the Dexter Graves Monument ").

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His grave lies in the Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

Graceland, the former home of music legend Elvis Presley, is one of the most visited houses in the United States ( second only to the White House ), attracting over 600, 000 domestic and international visitors a year.

Graceland has become one of the most-visited private homes in America with over 600, 000 visitors a year, behind the White House and Biltmore Estate ( 900, 000 visitors per year ).

In February 2006, CKX Chairman Bob Sillerman announced plans to turn Graceland into an international tourist destination on a par with the Disney or Universal theme parks, sprucing up the area mansion and doubling or possibly tripling the 600, 000 annual visitors to around 2 million a year.

Sillerman ’ s goal is to enhance the " total fan experience " at Graceland to compel visitors to spend more time and money.

The landscape architecture for Graceland was designed by Ossian Cole Simonds.

Small villages that form part of Upper Santa Cruz are Cangrejal, Jagan village, Hololo Road, Paxvale, Cantaro, Graceland Heights, Gasparillo, Sam-Boucaud, La Pastora Settlement, and Pipiol.

Graceland is a large white-columned mansion and estate that was home to Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee.

According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Presley " the home of the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague clan of Presleys and deputy Presleys, each squandering the vast gratuities which Elvis used to keep his whole world smiling.

Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian era cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Featured at Graceland are two of Presley's private airplanes, his extensive automobile and motorcycle collection and other Elvis memorabilia.

In later years Memphis would expand with housing, resulting in Graceland being surrounded by other properties.

* In the 2001 movie 3000 Miles to Graceland, Michael Zane ( Kurt Russell ) and Murphy ( Kevin Costner ) play a violent cat and mouse game with each other all the way to Twin Falls to launder the money they had stolen from an earlier casino heist.

* August 17 – Florists Transworld Delivery ( FTD ) reported that in one day the number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland for the funeral of Elvis Presley had surpassed the number for any other event in the company's history.

The Graceland album not only propelled Mambazo into the spotlight, but paved the way for other South African acts ( including Mahlathini and the Queens, Amaswazi Emvelo, Moses Mchunu, Ray Phiri and Stimela, and others ) to become known worldwide as well.

The music has its roots in southern Africa but later adaptations of this and many other African folk idioms have permeated Western music ( listen to both " A Swinging Safari " ( album ) by the Bert Kaempfert Orchestra ( 1962 ) and Graceland by Paul Simon ( 1986 )) which gave modern South African music, particularly jazz, much of its distinctive sound and lilting swagger.

Graceland is one of three notable 19th century cemeteries which were previously well outside the city limits ; the other two being Rosehill ( further north ), and Oak Woods ( South of Hyde Park ) which includes a major monument to Confederate civil war dead.

She is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Irving Park Road & Clark Street, Chicago, with other noted architects: David Adler, Louis Sullivan, Daniel H. Burnham, Bruce Goff, William Holabird, Howard Van Doren Shaw and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Most notable perhaps was Barney Rachabane, who would go on to, among other achievements, play with Paul Simon on the Graceland tour.

Presley bought at least three more Blackhawks and leased one other ( he bought a black 1971 for himself and a white 1971 for his Las Vegas doctor Elias Ghanem, and leased a white 1972 and a black 1973, his favorite Blackhawk, which car he purchased at the end of the lease ; this 1973 car is also on display at Graceland ).