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Name: Showmen's Rest, Forest Park, Illinois
Location Type: Other
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Coordinates: 41.879499, -87.813700
Description:
Showmen's Rest is a section of Woodlawn Cemetery where remains from a 1918 circus-train wreck were buried in a mass grave. Between 60 and 110 employees were killed when another train conductor fell asleep, causing his train to strike the circus train. Many of the victims' names were not known, so...