[1] Oak Woods is the final resting place of several famous Americans including Harold Washington, Ida B.

A monument and marker, which former Kentucky lieutenant governor John C. Underwood helped construct, probably inflates the number of soldiers buried as 6,000, but lists the names of more than 4,000.

[8] In response to the establishment of the Confederate memorial, in 1896, Thomas D. Lowther, a pre-war resident of the South, erected near it an abolitionist monument.

[9] The abolition monument is a large black marble cenotaph to pre-war southerners, "unknown heroric men", "martyrs" who had opposed slavery and disunion.

Famous nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi has his final resting place here, as do several other faculty members of the University of Chicago.