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Haymarket Martyr’s Monument

the monument itself

The Haymarket Martyr’s Monument was designated as a National Historic Landmark on February 18, 1997 and is located at 863 South DesPlaines Ave in the Forest Home/Waldheim Cemetery, approximately 200 feet from the main entrance. The monument was designed by Albert Weinert to commemorate the 1886 rally in Haymarket Square that led to the hangings of four leaders of the fight for workers’ rights for an eight hour day. The cemetery has a policy of not discriminating based on race/ethnicity/politics, and it was the only Chicago-area cemetery that would accept their remains. The cornerstone of the monument was laid on November 6, 1892.

According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination, “the monument itself consists of a sixteen-foot-high granite shaft crowned by a triangular-cut stone with intricate sculpting. The shaft is supported by a two-stepped base, on which stands two bronze figures. The predominant figure is a woman who is standing over the other figure, a bearded male worker. Below the bronze figure on the upper step is inscribed the date 1887 with bronze palms below it.”

A weekly tour is put on by the Historical Society of Forest Park | EventBrite — "an hour-long tour of the Haymarket Martyr's Monument and Radical Row"

the May 1st yearly event

Radical Row biographies

Eight people were sentenced to be executed after the Haymarket Affair:

Others in Radical Row:

Pages at the Forest Home Cemetery website — Eddie Balchowsky,   Voltairine de Cleyre ,   Eugene Dennis,   Joseph Dietzgen,   Raya Dunayevskaya,   William Z. Foster ,   Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,   Emma Goldmen,   Lucy Parsons,   Ben Reitman,   Franklin Rosemont,   and Anna Sosnovsky Winokur