Daniel H.Burnham, architect and city planner buried on his own island.
A.C. McClurg, Chicago book publisher and bookseller. Note the clover.
Mies van der Rohe, architect widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of Modern architecture.
The Palmers, owners of The Palmer House in Chicago. Great view even in death.
George Pullman, Pullman railroad cars. He was buried at night in a lead-lined coffin within an elaborately reinforced steel-and-concrete vault. Several tons of cement were poured to prevent his body from being exhumed and desecrated by labor activists.
We didn't get to see Marshall Field due to the cemetery's closing time. I'm sure it would be very easy to spend an entire day just looking at the final resting places of some of Chicago's greatest. The cemetery has a good website with the history of the people I mentioned plus many others.
http://www.gracelandcemetery.org/.
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