Word 49: A Walk Down Western Avenue

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

A Walk Down Western Avenue - West Ridge

Western Avenue: A place to see

Those of us here at Word 49 definitely have some night-owl tendencies. We enjoyed an early evening stroll down Western Avenue and took pictures of what we saw... And what we saw were flourishing businesses, crazy traffic, and a different kind of beauty, showing us the true meaning of a diamond in the rough.

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Saint Henry Catholic Cemetery

Saint Henry Catholic Cemetery is the only surviving churchyard (that is, a graveyard adjacent to and affiliated with a church) within the city of Chicago. Located in the West Ridge neighborhood on the far north side, the church, erected 1905, is a neo-Gothic structure, clad in brick with ornamentation of limestone and bronze. Originally serving the German Catholic community, as the population changed, it was given to a Croatian parish in the 1970s. Local legend has it that "Sailor Jack", the boy on the "Cracker Jack" box, is buried here, though various identities are given for him.