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The Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and Memorial or Stephen Douglas Monument Park is located at 800 E. 35th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois (part of the city's Douglas community), near the site of the horrifying Union prisoner of war Camp Douglas, which was named after him. Thousands of Confederates died at the camp, and are buried in a mound at Oak Woods Cemetery. A ten-foot statue of the man best remembered for debating Abraham Lincoln over slavery stands atop a 46 ft column of white marble from his native state, Vermont. Douglas died from typhoid fever on June 3, 1861 in Chicago, where he was buried on the shore of Lake Michigan. The site was afterwards bought by the state of Illinois, and the imposing monument by Leonard Volk was built over his grave. The site was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 28, 1977.[2]
Coordinates: 41°49′54″N, 87°36′30″W
