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DaPrato Studios of Chicago, with an international array of artists/architectural designers,(including a few from the Chicago area) artists such as: Italo Botti, Angelo Gherardi (Italy/US), Urano Bottari (Italy/US), Laurence Campbell (Ireland), Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (Oak Park, Illinois), and a number of others.
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The Queen of Heaven mausoleum complex has room for over 33,000 bodies and was as of 2009 about 75 percent filled. Present is huge gallery of stained glass, statuary and carved wood and statuary in marble, bronze and mosaic. The art in the west wing of the main building was carried out mostly by
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Queen of Heaven was consecrated in 1947. The cemetery maintained its own office until 1965, when operations were combined with neighboring Mount Carmel Cemetery. Currently, the cemetery is 472 acres (1.91 km) in size, and there are currently over 122,451 people buried there. There are
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In addition to regular graves, Queen of Heaven was the first area cemetery to have religious shrine sections. One of these is the "Shrine of the Holy Innocents," where young victims of the 1958
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are interred. In these sections families could purchase plots for all its members all at once, and not incur future charges.
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approximately 3,215 annual interments at Queen of Heaven.
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Hillside, Illinois
United States
Coordinates
41°51′44″N 87°54′09″W / 41.86222°N 87.90250°W / 41.86222; -87.90250
Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Chicago
Find a Grave
Queen of Heaven Cemetery
Roman Catholic
Hillside
Illinois
Chicago
Archdiocese of Chicago
Roosevelt Roads
Interstate 290
Mount Carmel Cemetery

Shrine of the Holy Innocents
Our Lady of the Angels School Fire
Mausoleum
Frank Annunzio
George Kirby
George Binks
Chet Bulger
Dick Drott
Nick Etten
Lawrence Jenco
Celeste Lizio
James Michels

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