Oak Woods Cemetery

Oak Forest Cemetery is a very quiet place. There are many celebrity cemeteries here. Modern times are basically full and there are tombstones everywhere.

Ida B. Wells, Jesse Owens, Thomas Dorsey, Harold Washington, Enrico Fermi. They rest in this landmark southside cemetery near Hyde Park. Listen carefully...

Here are the tombs of Nobel Prize winner Fermi and thousands of soldiers of the Confederate Army who died in prison camps during the Civil War. A walk to the cemetery is helpful to understand the local history.