Cemetery Sprawl — Chicago

City-Wide Stats

—Cemeteries

—Total Acres

—Est. Housing Units*

—Near CTA Rail

*Theoretical estimate at avg Chicago residential density (~40 units/acre). This is a thought experiment to contextualize scale — not a development proposal.

Selected Cemetery

Click a cemetery on the map to see details.

HOLC Redlining Layer

Historical HOLC redlining boundaries are available from the Mapping Inequality project (University of Richmond). Download the Chicago GeoJSON and add it to data/holc_chicago.geojson to enable this layer.

Chicago's redlining history is central to this analysis: majority-Black neighborhoods on the South and West Sides received "D" (Hazardous) grades, contributing to disinvestment and the destruction of Black-owned cemeteries.

% Black Population

< 10%

10–30%

30–50%

50–70%

> 70%

Cemetery

CTA Rail