Haymarket Martyrs' Monument

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“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).”
Wikipedia article Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1997 · category: Object · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 863 S. Des Plaines Ave., Forest Park, 60546
When was it listed? February 1997
Category. object
Township. Riverside township
National Register reference number. 97000343 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Haymarket Martyrs' Monument: 10 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bellwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dolese and Shepard Crushed Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Federal Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own Crews	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Riverside Lime and Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Superior Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Park, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest Park	$40,000	A large ash tree was blown down onto a house on Marengo Avenue. The tree caused significant damage to the roof, a bedroom and the porch.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest Park	$25,000	Numerous tree limbs blown down. Three cars were damaged by falling tree limbs on DesPlaines Avenue.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest Park	$2,000	Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down on the west side of the City of Chicago.
March 2026	Hail	Forest Park	-	A handful of 1 to 1.5 inch hail reports were received from near Berwyn and Cicero.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest Park	-	Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down between Interstate 290 and Madison Street. Tree and shingle damage was reported throughout the 700 block of Clarence Avenue. Concentrated damage occurred along Jackson Boulevard. Other tree limbs were blown down nearby.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest Park	-	A photo shared via social media showed large tree limb approximately 18 inches in diameter was completely snapped off.

Every storm recorded in Cook County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Benda House	0.4 miles	2023
F.F. Tomek House	0.7 miles	1999
Riverside Water Tower	1.0 miles	1969
Arcade Building	1.1 miles	2016
Arthur J. Dunham House	1.1 miles	1982
American State Bank	1.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000343 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 621 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.