City of Chicago :: The Haymarket Memorial

Public Art Program > The Haymarket Memorial , 175 N, Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60661 , A Tragedy of International Significance, On the evening of May 4, 1886, a tragedy of international significance unfolded in Chicago’s Haymarket produce district, An outdoor meeting had been hastily organized by anarchist activists to protest the violent death of workers during a labor lockout the previous

HAYMARKET MEMORIAL STATUE

Haymarket Memorial Statue in Haymarket Square Surrounded by Traffic 1890 LOCATION 2: RANDOLPH STREET AND OGDEN AVENUE July, 1900 thru 1928 The statue remained at its second location for just over 27 years, A medallion, which is evident in the photo below, is located just above an inscription, Also visible are two white dots just below the inscription, Those two dots are of the original

Haymarket Riot Monument / Police Memorial

The memorial to the seven officers who died as a result of violence between striking workers and police, has been bombed twice and struck by a streetcar in a freak accident, Moved four times in its history, it is now sheltered in the courtyard of the Police Training Center on West Jackson Blvd, A new Haymarket monument erected at the site of the former Haymarket Square was commissioned in 2004

Haymarket Square History

The “Haymarket Square” name later caught on as a place where farmers parked their horses and piles of hay they brought into town for dairies, breweries and tanneries, Grain and wood were also sold there, As automobiles appeared in the 1910s, produce and flowers filled the market, and the need for hay declined, The market continued through the 1950s, but the surrounding neighborhood had its

Massacre de Haymarket Square — Wikipédia

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Chicago monuments under assault, Part 17: Haymarket Memorial

Afterwards my dad made a point of driving a mile west to Haymarket Square to see the Haymarket Memorial Statue, which had just been bombed by the Weather Underground, a far-left terrorist organization that counted Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn as members, Depending on who you talk to, Ayers and Dohrn were either friends or acquaintences of Barack and Michelle Obama, On the …

Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument

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Monuments relating to the Haymarket affair

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Haymarket Square – Chicago, Illinois

Discover Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois: Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history,

Haymarket affair

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