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Queen of Heaven is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, consecrated in 1947. Operations were combined with the neighboring Mount Carmel Cemetery in 1965. There are currently over 122,000 people buried there, and over 3,000 annual internments. The adjacent Queen of Heaven Mausoleum, has 30,000 crypts.
In addition to regular graves, Queen of Heaven was the first area cemetery to have religious shrine sections, such as the "Shrine of the Holy Innocents," where the victims of the 1958 Our Lady of the Angels School Fire are buried. In these sections families could purchase plots for all its members all at once, and not incur future charges.
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