About this item
Charting the lore and lure of Chicago's ubiquitous burial grounds, this resource unearths the legends and legacies that mark the city's silent citizens—from larger-than-lifers and local heroes to machine mayors and machine-gunners. The book demonstrates that Chicago’s cemeteries are home not only to thousands of individuals who fashioned the city’s singular culture and character, but also to impressive displays of art and architecture, landscaping and limestone, egoism and ethnic pride. This edition includes all new digital photos and refreshed text in the same spirit and informal, travel-book style as the original. Mysterious questions such as Where is Al Capone buried? and What really lies beneath home plate at Wrigley Field? are answered in this reminder that although physical life must end, personal note—and notoriety—last forever.
About the Author
Ursula Bielski is the founder of Chicago Hauntings, Inc. the leader of our Chicago Ghost Tour Team, and the host of PBS' "The Hauntings of Chicago" (WYCC) . An historian, author, and parapsychologist, she has been writing and lecturing about Chicago's supernatural folklore and the paranormal for almost three decades and is recognized as the leading authority on the Chicago region's ghostlore and cemetery history. Ursula is the author of twelve popular and critically acclaimed books on the same subjects including the Chicago Haunts series and Graveyards of Chicago.. Ursula has been on a ton of TV shows, including "Ghost Adventures" and "The Maury Show" (NOT a baby daddy episode) . She also edits children's books on the paranormal for Bearport Publishing in New York and teaches courses in Paranormal Studies for Chicago's Harper College. Ursula received her Bachelors degree in history from Benedictine University and a Masters in American cultural and intellectual history from Northeastern Illinois University. Ursula loves recording the voices of the dead, listening to her weather radio, singing sacred music, making German and Polish dishes from her mom's old recipe binders, and watching horse racing, Downton Abbey and Jamie Oliver cooking shows. She is also a hypnosis practitioner with a YouTube channel, www.magicwordshyhpnosis.com , and loves helping people feel better through hypnosis. Ursula grew up in a haunted house in Chicago's Northcenter neighborhood and first learned about Chicago's ghost stories from her police officer dad, who once shot at a ghost in their house with his service revolver.
