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Chicago's freethinker cemetery became its most transfixing concert ground. Bohemian National Cemetery at 5255 North Pulaski Road was founded in 1877 by the city's Czech community after a Catholic priest refused burial to Marie Silhanek, a Czech woman deemed insufficiently observant - an outrage that drove eight Bohemian benevolent societies to buy fifty acres in what was then Jefferson Township and create a burial ground free of religious restrictions, open within a decade to all nationalities a...