Lincoln Cemetery
Lincoln Cemetery is a historically African American cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois, United States. The cemetery is about 112 acres with over 16,000 interments.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Address: 12300 South Kedzie Avenue, Blue Island, IL 60406
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dwight D. Eisenhower High School and Blue Island–Vermont Street station.
Dwight D. Eisenhower High School
School
Dwight D. Eisenhower High School is a public four-year high school located in Blue Island, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Lincoln Cemetery.
Blue Island–Vermont Street station
Railway station
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Blue Island–Vermont Street is a Metra station in Blue Island, Illinois, servicing the Rock Island District and Metra Electric District Lines. On the Rock Island, it is 16.4 miles from LaSalle Street Station. Blue Island–Vermont Street station is situated 1½ miles southeast of Lincoln Cemetery.
Blue Island station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Merrionette Park and Blue Island.
Merrionette Park
Village
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Merrionette Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,969 as of the 2020 census.
Blue Island
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Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 16 miles south of Chicago's Loop. Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood.
Robbins
Village
Robbins is a village and southwest suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,629 at the 2020 census. It is the second oldest African American incorporated town in the north following Brooklyn, Illinois, and was home to the country's first black-owned airport, Robbins Airport. Robbins is situated 1½ miles south of Lincoln Cemetery.
Lincoln Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Worth Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.66841° or 41° 40′ 6″ northLongitude
-87.70242° or 87° 42′ 9″ westElevation
607 feet (185 metres)Named after
Abraham LincolnOpen location code
86HJM79X+92OpenStreetMap ID
way 131817215OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryGeoNames ID
4899826Wikidata ID
Q6550517
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Lincoln Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Lincoln Cemetery”
- French: “cimetière Lincoln”
- French: “Cimetière Lincoln”
- Georgian: “ლინკოლნის სასაფლაო”
- Hebrew: “בית הקברות לינקולן בבלו איילנד, אילינוי”
- Japanese: “リンカーン墓地”
- Swedish: “Lincoln Cemetery”
- Ukrainian: “Лінкольн”
- Welsh: “Mynwent Lincoln”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lincoln Cemetery”. Photo: Nick Number, CC BY 4.0.