Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois

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Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois is a historic burial ground known for its strong ties to labor history and radical politics, including serving as the resting place of several prominent figures associated with the Haymarket affair.

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Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
historic cemetery
associatedWithEvent Haymarket affair
associatedWithMovement anarchist movement
labor movement
socialist movement
contains Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument
surface form: Haymarket Martyrs Monument
containsGraveOf Adolph Fischer
Albert Parsons
August Spies
Emma Goldman
George Engel
Louis Lingg
Lucy Parsons
Michael Schwab
Oscar Neebe
Voltairine de Cleyre
William Z. Foster
other labor activists
country United States of America
surface form: United States
establishedIn 19th century
hasAlternativeName Forest Home Cemetery
German Waldheim Cemetery
surface form: Waldheim Cemetery (historical name)
hasCoordinateRegion 41.86°N 87.82°W
hasCulturalSignificance site of annual labor and May Day commemorations
symbol of free speech and workers’ rights
hasFunction burial ground
memorial site
tourist attraction
hasHeritageDesignation U.S. National Historic Landmark (Haymarket Martyrs Monument)
listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Haymarket Martyrs Monument)
hasNotableFeature graves of immigrants and working-class communities
monuments to labor and radical figures
hasPredecessor German Waldheim Cemetery
hasReligiousPolicy non-sectarian cemetery
hasSection radicals and labor activists section
knownFor Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument
surface form: Haymarket affair martyrs monument

association with labor history
association with radical politics
locatedIn Chicago metropolitan area
Cook County, Illinois
Forest Park, Illinois
Illinois
ownedBy private cemetery association
visitedBy historians
labor activists
tourists

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August Spies burialPlace Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
George Engel burialPlace Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
this entity surface form: Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
Michael Schwab burialPlace Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
this entity surface form: Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
Haymarket affair hasMemorialLocation Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois