Forest Home Cemetery
Also known as Waldheim German Cemetery
Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA
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Forest Park, Illinois 60130 United StatesCoordinates: 41.86780, -87.82670 - foresthomecemetery.net
- 708-366-1900
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Because it was unassociated with any religious institution, it was chosen as burial place of the Haymarket martyrs. After they were buried there, the cemetery became a place of pilgrimage for anarchists, leftists, and union members. Due to the importance of the event in history, and the monuments' role as an international pilgrimage site, the Haymarket memorial was the first cemetery memorial to be designated a National Historic Landmark. The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument was designed by sculptor Albert Weinert.
The cemetery is divided into east and west sections by the Des Plaines River; the office is located at the eastern end. A single-lane bridge, constructed in 2000, connects the east and west sections, and replaced the former two-lane bridge which had fallen into disrepair. The Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) runs along the cemetery's northern boundary; the expressway's construction in the early 1950s necessitated the relocation of over 2,500 graves in German Waldheim Cemetery (the northeastern portion), as was also true of several thousand graves in Concordia Cemetery, which is directly across the expressway. Sections designated by letters are generally within the former German Waldheim Cemetery, which forms the northern half of the area east of the river; numbered sections are within the original Forest Home Cemetery, which includes the entire area west of the river, as well as the southern half of the area to the east.
Because it was unassociated with any religious institution, it was chosen as burial place of the Haymarket martyrs. After they were buried there, the cemetery became a place of pilgrimage for anarchists, leftists, and union members. Due to the importance of the event in history, and the monuments' role as an international pilgrimage site, the Haymarket memorial was the first cemetery memorial to be designated a National Historic Landmark. The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument was designed by sculptor Albert Weinert.
The cemetery is divided into east and west sections by the Des Plaines River; the office is located at the eastern end. A single-lane bridge, constructed in 2000, connects the east and west sections, and replaced the former two-lane bridge which had fallen into disrepair. The Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) runs along the cemetery's northern boundary; the expressway's construction in the early 1950s necessitated the relocation of over 2,500 graves in German Waldheim Cemetery (the northeastern portion), as was also true of several thousand graves in Concordia Cemetery, which is directly across the expressway. Sections designated by letters are generally within the former German Waldheim Cemetery, which forms the northern half of the area east of the river; numbered sections are within the original Forest Home Cemetery, which includes the entire area west of the river, as well as the southern half of the area to the east.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 105696
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