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17-547: Mount Carmel Cemetery may refer to: Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside, Illinois) , burial site of Chicago's Roman Catholic archbishops and some organized crime figures Mount Carmel Cemetery (Wyandotte, Michigan) Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens, New York) is a Jewish cemetery that opened in 1906 Mt. Carmel Cemetery (Lincoln, Nebraska) Mt. Carmel Cemetery (Philadelphia) See also [ edit ] Old Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site Topics referred to by

34-400: A scene with Patrick Swayze and Helen Hunt , as well as an episode in the 2022 miniseries The Marian Stained Glass Windows . The church was designed in an Italian Renaissance Revival architectural style by Henry Engelbert , John F. Pope, and William J. Brinkmann . It features a barrel-vaulted ceiling that wraps around a high altar made entirely of Carrara marble . It was declared

51-446: Is also the final resting place of numerous local organized crime figures, the most notorious being Al Capone . In all, the cemetery grounds contain over 400 family mausoleums. Many remains at the cemetery are people of Italian ancestry. The cemetery contains hundreds of headstones and monuments adorned with statues and elaborate engravings of religious figures such as Jesus, The Blessed Mother and many saints as well as angels. Many of

68-467: Is designed as a Romanesque building outside with a domed Romanesque Classical chapel inside, complete with altar, religious murals, clerestory windows providing light, and the crypts flanking the altar on either side. The Papal and U.S. flags also flank the altar. Brinkmann did not design the lavish interior, however, although he was more than capable, as evidenced by his interior for Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica . Instead, Archbishop Quigley engaged one of

85-479: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside, Illinois) Mount Carmel Cemetery was consecrated in 1901 and is currently 214 acres (0.87 km ) in size. It maintained its own office until 1965, when it combined operations with Queen of Heaven Cemetery. There are more than 226,275 remains at Mount Carmel and about 800 remains are interred there annually. Mount Carmel Cemetery

102-618: Is the Mausoleum and Chapel of the Archbishops of Chicago, and it is the focal point of the entire cemetery, standing on high ground. The mausoleum was commissioned by Archbishop James Quigley and was constructed between 1905 and 1912. The roughly rectangular-shaped mausoleum has a stepped pyramidal roof surmounted by a statue of the Archangel Gabriel sounding his trumpet at the moment of the final resurrection. The mausoleum

119-859: The Archdiocese of Chicago , it is, along with St. Hyacinth and Queen of All Saints , one of only three churches in Illinois designated by the Pope with the title of basilica. The church is also one of few "Black basilicas" in the United States , having a significant African-American population. Another is the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Norfolk, Virginia . Founded in 1874, it has been administered by

136-521: The National Shrine of St. Peregrine , the patron of those suffering from cancer . In the 1960s and 1970s the parish became predominantly African-American . The basilica was used for a brief scene in the 1987 film The Untouchables in which Sean Connery's character explains "The Chicago Way" to Kevin Costner's character. The basilica also appears in the 1989 film Next of Kin in

153-504: The Servite fathers for its entire history. Ground was broken for the current building on June 17, 1890, and the church was dedicated on January 5, 1902. The Parish served an Irish and Italian congregation for many years. The sorrowful mother novena was a major devotion at the parish during the first half of the 20th century, drawing worshippers from across the country and reaching many more listeners by radio. The church also houses

170-399: The design, thus reflecting the archdiocese's many ethnic groups and national churches. The most recent interment was the body of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin after his death in 1996 from liver and pancreatic cancer. Cardinal Bernardin had visited the chapel a few months before his death to select the site of his own crypt; choosing a spot to one side of the late Cardinal John Cody . Bernardin

187-536: The foremost religious architects of the day, Aristide Leonori , the noted for his 1899 design of the Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C. , as well as the interiors of early 20th century Mediterranean churches. For the mausoleum chapel interior, Leonori relied heavily on the use of marble and mosaics to give the chapel a Roman look while still referencing Celtic, Nordic and Slavic saints in

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204-438: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mount Carmel Cemetery . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mount_Carmel_Cemetery&oldid=846325198 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

221-614: The tombstones contain photographs of the inhabitants, reflecting a custom common in Italian cemeteries. The cemetery contains Commonwealth war graves of two World War I soldiers of the Canadian Army . The structure informally known as the Bishops' Mausoleum, designed by architect William J. Brinkmann , is located at Mount Carmel Cemetery and is the final resting places of the Bishops and Archbishops of Chicago; its formal name

238-566: Was constructed during February 1906 for an opening on March 18. The branch, usually single-track, split into two tracks at the Cemetery, whose station included a primary and secondary platform. In addition to funeral trains, the branch offered daily shuttles between Mount Carmel and Bellwood operating at 30-minute intervals during weekdays. On Sundays and holidays, direct service from the Wells Street Terminal in downtown Chicago

255-525: Was itself demolished in the late 1930s, as express service from Wells Street was discontinued in 1931 and the last funeral train is thought to have run in July 1934. Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica is a Catholic basilica on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois , which also houses the National Shrine of Saint Peregrine . Located at 3121 West Jackson Boulevard, within

272-543: Was provided. The Westchester branch opened on October 1, 1926, near where the Mount Carmel branch ran. This led to passenger service being discontinued on October 31 in favor of a bus line connecting to the Westchester branch at Roosevelt . Funeral service continued, but the cemetery no longer wished to have a station in it and a new one was constructed on the opposite side of Wolf Road for funeral parties; this

289-539: Was said to have remarked, "I've always been a little left of Cody." Below is a partial listing of interments in Mount Carmel Cemetery. The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad , an interurban linking Chicago with its western suburbs, began construction of a branch line to serve Mount Carmel and Oak Ridge Cemeteries. The terminal at Mount Carmel was located inside the cemetery grounds at section 37 and

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