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The Haymarket Martyrs got a monument of their own in 1893 at the Waldheim cemetery (now Forest Home) in Forest Park, Illinois initiated and funded by working-class people—not “city fathers”
https://portside.org/2026-05-02/haymarket-affair-three-monuments
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The Haymarket Affair in Three Monuments
On October 4, 1970, Chicago’s Haymarket Police Monument – quite possibly the first statue in the United States dedicated to police – was attacked for the third time in three years. Two years prior, on the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, May 4, antiwar protesters poured black paint on it after clashing with police. On October 6, 1969, the monument was blown up by the Weathermen (later, the Weather Underground), a new, ultra-radical group. An enraged Mayor Richard J.





