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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. [8] 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.
German Waldheim Cemetery (Forest Home) 863 Des Plaines Ave., Forest Park: 1873 Non-religious specific Waldheim Jewish Cemeteries (central div.), aka Waldheim Cemetery Company 1400 S. Des Plaines, Forest Park: 1873 Jewish [26] Waldheim Jewish Cemeteries (East), aka Waldheim Cemetery Company Forest Park: Jewish [27]
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).
Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island (listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994) Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington; German Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois; Graceland Cemetery, Chicago; Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth; Homewood Memorial Gardens, Homewood; Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest; Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island; Montrose ...
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 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.
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.
In 1893 the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument by Albert Weinert was unveiled in the German Waldheim Cemetery, where the four men executed, August Spies, Adolph Fischer, Albert Parsons, and George Engel, and Louis Lingg who committed suicide the day before the hanging, are buried. On September 14, 2004, another monument was unveiled, this one by Mary ...