March 23, 1986, Burr Tillstrom was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame for his creativity and innovation in the medium. The Saugatuck Douglas Art Club in Saugatuck, Michigan (the location of Tillstrom's longtime summer home) dedicated a memorial to Tillstrom in 1988. The Burr Tillstrom Collection and Archives are maintained at the Chicago History Museum. In 2013 Tillstrom was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. References External links A Memoir of Burr Tillstrom The Kuklapolitan Website and DVDs 1917 births 1985 deaths American people of Swedish descent American puppeteers Burials at Rosehill Cemetery Peabody Award winners People from Chicago LGBT people from Illinois People from Saugatuck, Michigan 20th-century LGBT people