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Montrose Cemetery
Cemetery in Cook County, Illinois, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Montrose Cemetery is located at 5400 North Pulaski Road, in Chicago, Illinois.[1]
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Montrose Cemetery & Crematorium | |
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Established | 1902 (1902) |
Location | |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 41°58′51″N 87°43′59″W |
Owned by | Owned and operated by the Kircher family |
Size | 60 acres |
No. of interments | >33,000 |
Website | Official website |
Find a Grave | Montrose Cemetery & Crematorium |
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Montrose Cemetery was founded by Andrew Kircher in 1902.[2] Five years after the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire, Kircher erected a memorial at Montrose Cemetery to memorialize the tragedy.[2]
The cemetery has been dubbed “gypsy row.” due to many Romani Americans being congregated in the area.[3]