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Forest Park (formerly Harlem) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. The population was 14,339 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] The Forest Park terminal on the CTA Blue Line is the line's western terminus, located on the Eisenhower Expressway at Des Plaines Avenue. [ 3 ]
February 18, 1997. The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket Affair (1886).
Forest Park is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority 's 'L' system, located in the village of Forest Park, Illinois and serving the Blue Line. Before the Congress Line was built, it served as terminal for the Garfield Line. It is the western terminus of the Forest Park branch. The station was known as Des Plaines until 1994.
Harlem Race Track Grandstand, 1901. The Harlem Race Track, managed by the Harlem Jockey Club, was a horse racing track located in the Village of Harlem, Illinois (currently Forest Park, Illinois) between Collier Avenue (currently 16th Street) and 12th St. (currently Roosevelt Road), and between W. 74th (currently Hannah Avenue) and W 76th (currently Lathrop Avenue).
Harlem/Illinois Route 43 serves as its western border, where between Roosevelt and South Boulevard, it borders Forest Park and between North Boulevard and North Avenue to the west it borders River Forest. The entire village of Oak Park lies on the shore of ancient Lake Chicago, which covered most of the city of Chicago during the last Ice Age ...
Showmen's Rest. Coordinates: 41°51′2.1″N 87°49′10.0″W. One of the five elephants surrounding Showmen's Rest. Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America. [1][2] The first performers and show workers that were buried there are ...
S. Forest Park School District 91. Showmen's Rest. Categories: Villages in Cook County, Illinois. Villages in Illinois. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after populated places in Illinois.
Katie Hawkinson. September 2, 2024 at 10:09 AM. Four people are dead after a shooting on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train in Forest Park, Illinois, on Monday (AP) Four people were ...