St. Adalbert Cemetery (Polish: Cmentarz św. Wojciecha) is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in Niles, Illinois. It is bordered by Milwaukee Avenue on the east, Albion and Hayes Streets on the south, and Harlem Avenue on the west. Various non-cemetery properties separate it from Touhy Avenue on the north. It is intersected at its center from north to south by Newark Avenue. Its main entrance is on Milwaukee Avenue, approximately midway between Devon and Touhy.

History

The cemetery is named for Saint Adalbert, the patron saint of Poland. The Mary, Mother of God Garden Crypt Complex was opened in 1990 in the northwest corner of the cemetery.[1] It contains approximately 6,000 crypts.

On May 17, 2009, at the cemetery was unveiled the Katyń Memorial, dedicated to the victims of Katyn massacre, a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out in 1940 by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union. The sculpture was designed by Wojciech Seweryn.[2][3]

Notable burials

Chronologically ordered by year of death.

References

  1. ^ "St. Adalbert Catholic Cemetery". Catholic Cemeteries. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  2. ^ "Niles, Chicago, Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej". katyn.ipn.gov.pl (in Polish).
  3. ^ "Polacy pod pomnikiem katyńskim w Chicago". tvp.info (in Polish). April 18, 2010.
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