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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).
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.
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.
A one-day visitation was held at Rayner Funeral Home on Friday, September 2, 1955. It is said that 5,000 people attended, though accounts vary. [2] The open-casket funeral was held on September 3 at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. Roughly 2,000 attendees witnessed the service inside the church with thousands more attending outside. Rev.
George Homer Ryan (born February 24, 1934) is an American former politician who served as the 39th governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as secretary of State of Illinois from 1991 to 1999 and as lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1991. He was later convicted of federal racketeering ...
Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler) Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector) Boerne, Texas – Louis Boerne (German writer) [73] Bolivar, 4 places in Missouri, Mississippi, New York, and Tennessee – Simón Bolivar [73] Bolton, Massachusetts – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton [74] Bonaparte, Iowa – Napoleon ...
Gere shares Homer with his second ex-wife Carey Lowell, from whom he split in 2013. The actor also shares two younger sons — Alexander, 4, and a second child whose name hasn’t been announced ...
Andrew J McGann (August 3, 1925 – February 5, 2008) was an American politician, businessman, and funeral director who served as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993.