Haymarket Martyrs' Monument

Memorial · Forest Park, Illinois

The 1893 monument in Forest Home Cemetery over the graves of the anarchists executed after the Haymarket affair of 1886, when a bomb thrown at a labour rally in Chicago led to a trial widely regarded since as a miscarriage of justice. May Day is observed around the world because of what happened here. It is a National Historic Landmark — designated, unusually, for its significance to people outside the United States — and Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons and other radicals chose to be buried around it.

Forest Home Cemetery, 863 Des Plaines Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois, 60130, United States

FREE. Open during Forest Home Cemetery's daylight hours. No staff, no visitor centre and no facilities. May Day commemorations on 1 May.

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