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The square in 2012, with the Haymarket Memorial in the distant-center Haymarket square c. 1900 Another view of the square c. 1900 May Day attendees at the square in 2012. Haymarket Square [1] is a commercial area on the Near West Side [2] of Chicago at Randolph Street and Des Plaines Street [3] just east of Halsted Street, [4] known primarily ...
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
The original monument as seen in the busy Haymarket Square, circa 1905. In 1889, a commemorative nine-foot (2.7 meter) bronze statue of a Chicago policeman by sculptor Johannes Gelert was erected in the middle of Haymarket Square with small donations by citizens and by private funds raised by the Union League Club of Chicago. [1]
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).
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Haymarket Square (band), a Chicago-based psychedelic rock band This page was last edited on 25 June 2021, at 00:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Ceremony at the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois, in May 1986, in which singer Utah Philips and others commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair Emma Goldman's grave. Jo Davidson was the sculptor of the bronze bas relief image of Goldman. (The dates of birth and death on the stone are ...