This project details the research, beginning with the original documents, and shows how the Chicago City cemetery became Lincoln Park. It also reveals how the physical remains of earlier Chicagoans became buried within the layers of written history. (This non-Flash resource is accessible by clicking on "Enter Site" at the bottom of the Flash-based introductory page.)

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chicago

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Additional Tags

hidden grave site, hidden graveyard, primary source document, chicago city cemetery, couch family vault, cemetery tomb in lincoln park

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Classroom Considerations

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information