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If you enjoy this blog post, consider subscribing to get my newsletter. Comments are always welcome and appreciated. Walk into Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, just outside Chicago, and you’ll find a graveyard within a graveyard. The markers sit close together. The names are sometimes missing. Stone elephants stand watch, their trunks lowered like they’re mourning something they still remember. This is Showmen’s Rest, one of the strangest and saddest burial plots in the Chic