St Mary Cemetery & Mausoleums

A beautiful cemetery. very well kept up but my only complaint is the head manager /​owner of this cemetery.
I have 1 person that I know that is buried here which is my beloved fiancée.
Problem all starts with the fact several feet away from where my beloved and his brother rest, a headstone was planted that DOES NOT BELONG on the lot.
Please keep in mind that this garden stone had a quote on it, had dates and a name marked in permanent marker and was most definitely there for years.
The relatives of this deceased is in the wrong as well as I because I had placed an actual headstone ON TOP OF THE GRASS which was removed promptly within 6 months.
So much for «overseeing» a headstone that was not supposed to be there several feet away from my loved one.
Disgusted with the fact that 2 small framed pictures were tossed. How would YOU feel if your loved ones photos were trashed? Could they not have held onto them for pick-​up at the office?
I pointed this out with the owner who physically stood right next to me — he was VERY non-​empathetic when stating that this neighboring stone would be removed and walked away not saying another damned word for my losses.
He could care less about the trashed photos, too.
It’s a crying shame that this world revolves around money, even in death.

Its very clean. Kinda weird writing a review. I have a lot of family here and I’m glad that we chose this cemetery.

So my dad begged me not to write a review for the cemetery. I never listened very well…
I’ve been here a few times over the past few years. It is easy to find. The grounds are immaculate. And it’s the final resting place for many of my family members.
I don’t know anything about this cemetery other than the few details that I have shared. But I’d like to think that my family has chosen a nice place for their burials.

It’s kind of morbid writing a review for a cemetery but I will. All my close deceased family members are buried here. They do a decent job keeping the area clean. I just wish they would trim the grass around the headstones because it’s sad seeing them completely covered.

If you want to find a few famous faces here (well not really their faces) you can find the graves on some of the following: Chicago Mayor Micheal Anthony Bilandic, the great wrestler Edward ‘Moose’ Cholak, Midget (little person to be more PC: Edward C Gaedel, Professional Football Player Brian (Louis Brian) Piccolo (yes there is a movie about his life), U.S. Congressman Austin Edward Kelly, Major League Baseball Player George Joseph Moriarty, and a few other people that have been forgotten by many, but not by some such as myself who really enjoys reading and researching the Chicago backdrops of lives.
Very expansive but if your into checking out great statuary this is not the spot. As a grave enthusiast and writer, I must admit that I was a bit disappointed that it didn’t have more statues from way back when. As most of the other cemeteries in Chicago have some awesome looking pieces.
Now, I know a few people who are buried here, so with that said, it is a peaceful place and just an absolutely serene place. Now the trees are really not too close to one another so if you come in summer, you really have to have am umbrella to block out the sun. The one thing that I do really have to say is that is that this is one of the only cemeteries around that has its own grotto, where you can go and lite a candle to the various statues and saints that the public seem to leave behind. It is serene though.
There are no rivers running through it nor a spot to overlook and just enjoy the calmness, but the place does have some really expansive areas to just walk and be at peace.