What is Eternal Silence?
{{italic title}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Dexter Graves Monument | nrhp_type = cp | nocat = yes | partof = [[Graceland Cemetery]] | partof_refnum = 00001628 | image = Chicago, Illinois Eternal Silence1 crop.jpg | alt = | caption = According to folklore looking into the eyes of the statue will give the viewer a vision of their own death. | coordinates = | location = [[Uptown, Chicago|Uptown]], [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], [[Cook County, Illinois|Cook County]], [[Illinois]], United States | locmapin = Chicago#Illinois#USA | nearest_city = | area = | built = 1909 | builder = Jules Bercham | demolished = | restored = | restored_by = | architect = | architecture = [[Art Nouveau]] | customarchitect_title = Sculptor | customarchitect = [[Lorado Taft]] | added = January 18, 2001 | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | mpsub = }} '''''Eternal Silence''''' is a [[monument]] in [[Chicago]]'s [[Graceland Cemetery]]. It is also known as the '''Dexter Graves Monument''' or the '''Statue of Death'''.<ref name=bielski>Bielski, Ursula. ''Creepy Chicago: A Ghosthunter's Tale of the City's Scariest Sites'', ([https://books.google.com/books?id=HpJaL7t7IyIC&dq=eternal+silence+taft&pg=PA93 Google Books link]), [[Lake Claremont Press]], 2003, p. 93, ({{ISBN|1893121151}}).</ref> The statue is a [[bronze]] [[sculpture]] set on and [[wikt:backdrop|backdropped]] by black [[granite]]. It was created by [[Americans|American]] [[sculptor]] [[Lorado Taft]] in 1909. == History == [[File:Chicago, Illinois Eternal Silence1.jpg|thumb|right|Hooded bronze figure]] ''Eternal Silence'' is a monument in Graceland Cemetery to Dexter Graves. Graves led a group of thirteen famil