Located in Cook County Illinois, Memory Gardens Cemetery is a nondenominational memorial park that offers over 80 acres of natural northeastern Illinois landscape beauty as well as a place to both honor and remember loved ones. Courteous staff members are willing and able to help visitors arriving from nearby Chicago or its surrounding suburbs. Nestled and protected by the Pottawattamie Woods, Deer Grove, and Busse Woods Forest Preserves, Memory Gardens offers breathtaking beauty and serenity through all seasons. Offering and ground as well as aboveground, statues, monuments, and headstones, Memory Gardens in Arlington Heights also honors our military heroes who have fought and died through a multitude of wars. Memorials, tanks, and cannons are scattered liberally throughout the properties, as are Armed Forces seals and plaques. Exquisitely sculptured shrubbery, frames, and an Italian cast bronze replica of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" has provided welcome seclusion and solitude for visiting loved ones for decades. The park is landscaped with colorful crab trees, shrubberies, and floral arrangements, as well as reflecting pools and fountains. Individual and themed gardens offer visitors cents and visuals designed to comfort and soothe. A veteran's Garden of Honor chapel dedicated to veteran's organizations and war dead honor over 1,000 servicemen and women who have been buried here since the First World War. As a resting place not only veterans, but to Dr. Donald Tuomi, a scientist member of the Manhattan Project group to develop the first atomic bomb, as well as famed radio personality and puppeteer Roy Brown, Memory Gardens has been serving the needs of residents northwest of Chicago for generations. Located only a short distance west of Lake Michigan, Memory Gardens Cemetery is accessible from northbound Interstate 294 or westbound Interstate 90. Strolling amongst exquisite statuary, memorials and tributes to civilians and veterans offers visitors to Memory Gardens a perfect setting to reflect, remember and honor their loved ones in a setting that offers a welcome sense of embracing comfort and security. |