Burial Grounds
IC #1021 rounds the curve at 35th Street near the site of the tomb of Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois Senator and lobbyist for the Illinois Central Railroad. The infamous Union prisoner-of-war camp, Camp Douglas, was located just north of here on land that Douglas sold to the State of Illinois in 1861. Dubbed "Andersonville of the North", it is estimated that over 6,000 Confederate prisoners died in the camp and are buried in Oak Woods Cemetery off 67th Street.
Burial Grounds
IC #1021 rounds the curve at 35th Street near the site of the tomb of Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois Senator and lobbyist for the Illinois Central Railroad. The infamous Union prisoner-of-war camp, Camp Douglas, was located just north of here on land that Douglas sold to the State of Illinois in 1861. Dubbed "Andersonville of the North", it is estimated that over 6,000 Confederate prisoners died in the camp and are buried in Oak Woods Cemetery off 67th Street.