Just in case you forget Roland Burris’ political achievements, never fret. All you have to do is take a stroll over to Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetary where the Senator-designate has had his resume carved into stone.

There, Burris, whom embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed to succeed President-elect Barack Obama in the Senate on Tuesday, has erected a granite mausoleum listing his many accomplishments.

Under the seal of the state of Illinois and the words “Trail Blazer,” Burris, 71, has listed his many firsts in granite, including being the state’s first African-American attorney general and the state’s first African-American comptroller.

The memorial also notes that Burris was the first African-American exchange student to Hamburg University in Germany from Southern Illinois University in 1959.

Good. Lord. The Onion couldn’t have produced such a story.