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Rick Kogan

The dead keep telling tales and the new book ‘Graceland Cemetery’ is alive with hundreds of them

CHICAGO — The dead do tell tales.

The trick is to listen and when you do, you will learn that the great architect Louis Sullivan’s “grave was initially unmarked (when he died in 1924, he was out of fashion and in dire financial circumstances).”

You will meet Thomas Barbour Bryan, the founder of Graceland Cemetery, a man who, among many accomplishments, spoke six languages, built railroads, founded Elgin, wrote comic poetry and was “probably the only person who knew both Abraham Lincoln and H.H. Holmes.”

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