Lincoln Park

This guide to Lincoln Park in Chicago centers on the Couch tomb, a fifty-ton stone mausoleum that Ira Couch's family built after his death in 1857, when the ground around it was still Chicago's only public cemetery. It follows the decades-long effort to move the cemetery to make way for the park, and the thousands of graves that were relocated, or left behind, in the process. Stand near the low stone building behind the history museum, and you're standing on ground that was a cemetery once.