By Kori Rumore

Julia Buccola Petta: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside. If I have to pick only one monument, it's that of a young woman named Julia Buccola Petta, who only became semi-famous after her death, not in life. She is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside — the same resting place as Al Capone and Dean O'Banion — and her monument can be found along the Wold Road side.

Julia is best-known today as the "Italian Bride," and her grave site is marked by a life-sized statue of her in her wedding dress, a marble reproduction of the photograph of Julia in the same dress that is mounted on the monument. The story goes that Julia Buccola grew up on the West Side of Chicago, married and died in childbirth with her infant in 1921. She was buried in her wedding dress, with her stillborn child in her arms. Oddly, after Julia's death, her mother, Filomena Buccola, began to have eerie dreams about her daughter every night. 

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