Oak Woods Cemetery - Notable Burials

Notable Burials

  • Cap Anson (1852–1922), Major League Baseball Hall of Famer
  • Faith Bacon (1910-1956), Burlesque dancer and actress
  • James "Big Jim" Colosimo (1877–1920), mafioso
  • William Craig (1855–1902), first United States Secret Service agent to die on duty
  • Charles S. Deneen (1863–1940), politician
  • Thomas A. Dorsey (1899–1993), composer, the "father of Gospel music"
  • Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), physicist
  • Louis H. Ford (1914–1995), Presiding Bishop, Church of God in Christ; social activist
  • Jake Guzik (1886–1956), gangster, "Greasy Thumb"
  • William Draper Harkins (1873–1951), nuclear chemist
  • Monroe Heath (1827–1894), mayor of Chicago
  • Elisha Albright Hoffman (1839-1929), minister and Gospel hymn writer
  • James Hutchinson Woodworth (1804–1869), mayor of Chicago
  • Charles Johnson (1909–2006), pitcher and outfielder for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro League
  • John Christen Johansen (1876–1964), portraitist and landscape painter
  • John H. Johnson (1918–2005), founder and publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines
  • Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866–1944), Hall of Fame, First Commissioner of Baseball
  • Richard Loeb (1905–1936), crime figure
  • Little Brother Montgomery (1906–1985), blues piano player and singer
  • Jesse Owens (1913–1980), Olympic track and field champion
  • Eugene Sawyer (1934–2008), second African-American mayor of Chicago (1987–1989)
  • J. Young Scammon (1812–1890), attorney, banker, newspaper publisher
  • Maud Slye (1879–1954), University of Chicago pathologist
  • Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1915–2000), gospel singer
  • William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago
  • Bill Veeck (1914–1986), Major League Baseball owner
  • Albertina Walker (1929–2010), Singer, Songwriter, "Queen of Gospel"
  • Harold Washington (1922–1987), lawyer, politician, first African American mayor of Chicago
  • Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), social reformer, civil rights activist
  • Junior Wells (1934–1998), blues musician
  • James Hutchinson Woodworth (1804–1869), mayor of Chicago
  • Ben Wilson (1967-1984), Chicago-area high school basketball player

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