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The German Waldheim Cemetery was organized by a group of German Masonic Lodges in 1873 with the first interment on May 9, 1873. The Waldheim Cemetery was established as a non-religion-specific cemetery, where Freemasons, Romani, and German-speaking immigrants to Chicago could be buried without regard for religious affiliation.
6700 W Higgins A, Chicago: 1841 German Waldheim Cemetery (Forest Home) Forest Park: 1873 Non-religious specific Waldheim Jewish Cemeteries (central div.) 1400 S. Des Plaines, Forest Park [26] Waldheim Jewish Cemeteries (East) Forest Park [27] Waldheim Jewish Cemeteries (West, incl. Joseph and Sons Inc.) Berwyn area [28]
Michael "The Pike" Heitler (1876 – April 30, 1931) was a Prohibition gangster involved in prostitution for the Chicago Outfit. A Jewish mob boss born in what is today Ukraine, Heitler is buried at Waldheim Cemetery Co. in Forest Park, Illinois.
Lingg, Spies, Fischer, Engel, and Parsons were buried at the German Waldheim Cemetery (later merged with Forest Home Cemetery) in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Schwab and Neebe were also buried at Waldheim when they died, reuniting the "Martyrs". In 1893, the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument by sculptor Albert Weinert was raised at ...
Inhumations (human interments) at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, a suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. Interments in the adjacent German Waldheim Cemetery (with which it merged in 1969) are included.
Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, by sculptor Albert Weinert, is located in Forest Home (Waldheim) Cemetery, in the 900 block of S. Des Plaines Avenue, just south of the Eisenhower Expressway in Forest Park, Illinois. It marks the graves of seven of the eight Haymarket martyrs and is dedicated to the four men hanged for the Haymarket bombing on May ...
Forest Park was the location of Forest Park Amusement Park, [21] a small but popular amusement park located just west of Desplaines Avenue, and just north of the then Waldheim Cemetery, from 1907 to 1922. Initially, the park was received negatively by Chicago area church members due to its close proximity to the cemetery.
Todd was buried in Forest Park, Illinois, at Beth Aaron Cemetery in plot 66, [46] which is part of Jewish Waldheim Cemetery. [47] [48] In his autobiography, Eddie Fisher, who considered himself Todd's best friend, wrote: With Frank Sinatra, 1956. There was a closed coffin, but I knew it was more for show than anything else.