The City Museum will present the 30th annual Tales Tombstones Tell at Oakwood Cemetery, located at York Street and Oakwood Avenue, on Friday, October 4, 2019. Tours begin at 6:30 pm and start off every 10 minutes thereafter, with the last tour starting at 7:30 pm. Tours last approximately 45 minutes and no reservations are […]
Tales Tombstones Tell to Capture the Spirit of One West Chicago
Friday, October 5, 2018 Beginning at 6:30 p.m. with last tour at 7:45 p.m. Oakwood Cemetery, Oakwood Avenue & York Street Continuing in the spirit of One West Chicago, a priority of the West Chicago Strategic Plan to celebrate the community’s diversity, to establish long-term relationships through engagement efforts and to encourage broader participation in […]
Oakwood Cemetery’s Benefactors Featured in A Sense of Place Blog
As we approach the 26th year of Tales Tombstones Tell, the annual cemetery walk, we remember Dr. Joseph and Mary McConnell who gave the land for Oakwood Cemetery, our oldest cemetery in town. This story of the McConnell’s was featured in last year’s 25th Anniversary of the event. Joseph McConnell and his wife, Mary Thompson Fuller, came […]
