St. Adalbert Cemetery
{{Short description|Roman Catholic cemetery in Niles, Cook County, Illinois}}
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| established = {{start date|1872}}
| country = United States
| location = 6800 North Milwaukee Avenue, Niles, Illinois
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| owner = Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
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| interments = >90,000
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St. Adalbert Cemetery ({{langx|pl|Cmentarz św. Wojciecha}}) is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in Niles, Illinois. It is bordered by Milwaukee Avenue on the east, Albion and Hayes Streets on the south, and Harlem Avenue on the west. Various non-cemetery properties separate it from Touhy Avenue on the north. It is intersected at its center from north to south by Newark Avenue. Its main entrance is on Milwaukee Avenue, approximately midway between Devon and Touhy.
History
The cemetery is named for Saint Adalbert, the patron saint of Poland.
The Mary, Mother of God Garden Crypt Complex was opened in 1990 in the northwest corner of the cemetery.{{cite web|title=St. Adalbert Catholic Cemetery|url=http://www.catholiccemeterieschicago.org/locations.php?cem=17|publisher=Catholic Cemeteries|accessdate=27 December 2014}} It contains approximately 6,000 crypts.
On May 17, 2009, at the cemetery was unveiled the Katyń Memorial, dedicated to the victims of Katyn massacre, a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out in 1940 by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union. The sculpture was designed by Wojciech Seweryn.{{cite web|url=https://katyn.ipn.gov.pl/kat/miejsca-pamie/pomniki/12366,Niles-Chicago-Stany-Zjednoczone-Ameryki-Polnocnej.html|title=Niles, Chicago, Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej|website=katyn.ipn.gov.pl|language=pl}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.today/20130430130600/http://www.tvp.info/informacje/swiat/polacy-pod-pomnikiem-katynskim-w-chicago/1673847|website=tvp.info|language=pl|title=Polacy pod pomnikiem katyńskim w Chicago|date=April 18, 2010}}
Notable burials
Chronologically ordered by year of death.
- Vincent Barzynski (1838–1899) Roman Catholic priest and organizer of the Polish-American community in Chicago
- Peter Kiolbassa (1837–1905) Chicago Treasurer and Commissioner of Public Works
- Anthony Michalek (1878–1916) US Congressman
- Wladyslaw (Wladislaus) Dyniewicz (1843–1928) founder of Gazeta Polska, the first Polish newspaper in Chicago
- John Smulski (1867–1928) Treasurer of Illinois, founder and president of NorthWestern Trust & Savings Bank, the first Polish bank in the United States
- Stanley Henry Kunz (1864–1946) US Congressman
- Miecislaus Haiman (1888-1949) Polish-American historian, first Curator of the Polish Museum of America
- William Walter Link (1884–1950) US Congressman
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski (1882–1958) US Congressman
- Thomas S. Gordon (1893–1959) US Congressman
- William Lelivelt (1884–1968) Major League Baseball pitcher
- Fredrak Fraske (1872–1973) Last surviving veteran of the Indian Wars
- George Halas (1895–1983) Owner, founder, coach of the Chicago Bears
- Stanisław Błaszczak (1901–1983) Lieutenant colonel of the Polish Army, Warsaw Uprising insurgent
- Chester A. Chesney (1916–1986) US Congressman
- Dan Rostenkowski (1928–2010) US Congressman
- Steven F. Kordek (1911–2012) pinball game designer
References
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External links
- {{Official website|1=http://www.catholiccemeterieschicago.org/locations.php?cem=17}}
- {{GNIS|417118|Saint Adalbert Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleums}}
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Category:Cemeteries in Cook County, Illinois
Category:Roman Catholic cemeteries in Illinois
Category:1872 establishments in Illinois
Category:Cemeteries established in the 1870s