Graceland Cemetery

Graceland Cemetery, one of Chicago's oldest, is home to one of the city's most photographed graves: a life-size statue of a young girl, enclosed in a glass case to protect it from the weather, marking a grave inscribed "Inez Clarke, 1873-1880." According to legend, the girl was killed by lightning at a family picnic, and the statue is said to vanish from its glass case during thunderstorms — she was afraid of storms in life — reappearing once they pass, with a girl sometimes seen wandering the grounds in the meantime. Cemetery historians have long debated who is actually buried there; some records suggest the grave may actually belong to a boy or to a girl named Inez Briggs rather than Clarke, the names likely confused in old records.