Mt. Carmel Cemetery

Consecrated on August 30, 1900 by Archbishop Patrick Feehan, Mt. Carmel Cemetery became the first cemetery opened in the western area of the Archdiocese. It initially operated its own railroad connection directly from Chicago for funeral trains. Mt. Carmel is the site of the Bishops Mausoleum, where one Bishop, three Archbishops, and three Cardinals are entombed, including most recently Joseph Cardinal Bernardin in 1996. It contains the largest concentration of private family mausoleums, more than four hundred, and this burial tradition of many Italian Catholic families flourishes there. Mt. Carmel Cemetery remains active, with both lawn level marker graves and monument graves available for purchase in Sections 41, 42, and 43.

Hillside, Illinois · United States