Forest Home Cemetery Overview
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Native Americans
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Eisenhower Expressway
Gravestones and Monuments
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Unique Gravestone Monuments
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White Bronze
Rustic Gravestones
Photo-ceramic
Tiffany Designed Monuments
Druids
International Organization of Odd Fellows (IOOF)
Mausoleum
Ashes Scattered and Interred
Degradation and Theft
Original Deeds and Bookkeeping
Labor Activists
Haymarket Monument
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The Haymarket Affair
Haymarket Time Capsule
George Engel
Samuel Fielden
Louis Lingg
Adolph Fischer
Albert Parsons
Michael Schwab
August Spies
Oscar Neebe
Radical Row
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Eddie Balchowsky
Voltarine de Cleyre
Eugene Dennis
Raya Dunayevskaya
Joseph Dietzgen
William Z. Foster
Emma Goldmen
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Ben Reitman
Lucy Parsons
Franklin Rosemont
Ann Sosnovsky Winokur
Labor and Political Burials
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Joe Mariani
Cigar Makers' International
International Alliance of Bill Posters and Billers of America
People of Interest Buried in Cemetery
Ashbel Steele
Austin Family
Philander Barclay
Edwin Oscar Gale
Sophy and Charles Drechsler
Fedinand Haase
Doris Humphrey
Flora Gill
Dr. Clarence and Grace Hemingway
Dr. Frank and Phyllis Oreland
Augustin and Elizabeth Porter
Edward Hand and Lillie Morey Pitkin
Martha Louise Rayne
Origen White Herrick
Dr Thomas Roberts Hurlbut
Joseph and Betty Kettlestrings
Roos Family
James Fletcher Skinner
Billy Sunday
Adolph Westphal
Ethnic and Other Groupings
African American
Dutch
Hispanic
Roma (Gypsy)
Children
Military
Disaster Victims
Eastland ship disaster
Iroquois Theatre Fire
Smallpox Epidemic
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Cemetery Tours
Addtional Resources
Forest Park Review articles
Labor and Political Burials
Scattered through out the cemetery are gravestones and monuments for various individuals and organizations for who were involved in labor. Shown below are just a few examples.
Joe Mariani
Cigar Makers International
International Alliance of Bill Posters and Billers of America Local #1