Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)

Notable graves

• Robert Sengstacke Abbott, newspaper publisher
• Albert Ammons, Jazz/boogie-woogie pianist
• Lillian Hardin Armstrong, Jazz singer/pianist/second wife of Louis Armstrong
• Big Bill Broonzy, Bluesman
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet
• Bessie Coleman , early African-American aviator
• Johnny Dodds, Jazz clarinetist
• Warren "Baby" Dodds, Jazz drummer
• Charles "Pat" Dougherty American baseball pitcher in the pre-Negro Leagues
• Andrew Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro Leagues
• William "Bill" Francis Third baseman and manager in the Negro Leagues.
• King Daniel Ganaway Photographer
• Al Hibbler, American baritone vocalist.
• Papa Charlie Jackson, American blues singer, songster and banjoist/guitarist
• Tom "College Boy" Johnson American baseball pitcher in the Negro Leagues
• Frank Leland, American baseball player, manager, and executive in the pre-Negro Leagues
• Lillian C. Moseley Bronzeville socialite, worked for notables on both sides of the law: Al Capone, Attorney Roy Washington, The Honorable Harold Washington, first African American Mayor of Chicago and the Honorable Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz
• Jimmy Reed, Blues musician
• Ella Wright who was a schoolteacher and the mother of writer Richard Wright 1908-1960.