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Forest Park, the village where the dead outnumber the living
1907
Forest Park, Illinois
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Six cemeteries sit inside this one small village: Forest Home, German Waldheim, Concordia, Woodlawn, Jewish Waldheim and Altenheim. Chicago pushed its burying grounds west and Forest Park took them, until estimates of the buried against the living ran to something like thirty to one. The village was called Harlem until 1907. It is also one of only two towns on the Chicago L network that do not touch Chicago.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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