Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood is known for its pristine foliage and manicured landscape, not to mention its scenic residential areas.

Longtime Chicago tour guide Tony Szabelski describes it as “one of the most upscale neighborhoods in Chicago to live in.” He often leads city tours through the neighborhood and said it’s a safe place to be, even at night.

But behind the bubbly chatter of the free Lincoln Park Zoo, the buzz of cyclists on the park’s many paths and the cheers from its sports fields is a hidden, macabre history.

More than 100 years ago, dozens of people met their deaths near a sightseeing attraction that was notoriously known as the “Suicide Bridge.”

Chicago Daily News

“Louis Rockne’s fatal jump from the High Bridge” read a headline from the Chicago Daily Tribune in

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