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Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. DesPlaines Ave, Forest Park, Illinois, adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway, straddling the Des Plaines River in Cook County, just west of Chicago. [1] The cemetery traces its history to two adjacent cemeteries, German Waldheim (1873) and Forest Home (1876), which merged in 1969.
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).
Chicago and Suburban Cemetery (formerly for Menorah Gardens) Christ Church Churchyard Evanston area Christ Lutheran Cemetery Orland Park: Church of the Holy Comforter Kenilworth: Circle of Life Cemetery Inverness: Concordia Cemetery Forest Park: 1872 Lutheran [1] Congregation Betheran Hamedrash Hockoodosh Cemetery Forest Park Waldheim Gate #26 ...
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.
Cemeteries in Chicago (2 C, ... Illinois" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... Forest Home Cemetery (Forest Park) H.
Haymarket Martyrs' Monument in Forest Home Cemetery. Following the Haymarket affair, trial and executions, the five dead defendants—George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Albert Parsons, and August Spies—were buried at the German Waldheim Cemetery (later merged with Forest Home Cemetery) in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
Burials at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago (40 P) Pages in category "Burials in Forest Park, Illinois" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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 ...