About the Event
Once upon a Chicago history, Lincoln Park was known as City Cemetery, a location with a 19th-century grave-robbing problem. Join us for a virtual presentation with Mysterious Chicago’s Adam Selzer as we explore the connection between Chicago medical schools, their “no questions asked” policies, and the grave robbing that plagued the lakefront.
GRAVE ROBBING 101 unearths the history of City Cemetery beneath today’s Lincoln Park, sharing stories of Chicago’s body-snatching era along with the curious practices and unsettling realities of this little-known chapter in the city’s past.
Who's Speaking
Adam Selzer
Adam Selzer is a tour guide, author, and historian in Chicago and New York. The author of more than 20 books, and a regular talking head on TV, his tours are informative, hilarious, and endlessly fascinating, whether in person or on his Mysterious Chicago livestreams.
Adam Selzer is a tour guide, author, and historian in Chicago and New York. The author of more than 20 books, and a regular talking head on TV, his tours are informative, hilarious, and endlessly fascinating, whether in person or on his Mysterious Chicago livestreams.