Which sculptor designed the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument?

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Which sculptor designed the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument? Albert Weinert designed it.

The monument was commissioned after the Haymarket affair, the 1886 Chicago labor confrontation followed by the controversial trial and execution of several defendants. It was erected in 1893 at German Waldheim Cemetery, now part of Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois.

Weinert's design combines a 16-foot granite shaft with bronze figures representing Justice standing over a fallen worker. The monument also bears the names of the executed defendants and text from Governor John Peter Altgeld's later pardon of three surviving defendants.

A common mix-up is confusing this cemetery monument with Chicago's separate Haymarket police statue or the later Haymarket Memorial speakers' wagon. Weinert made the Martyrs' Monument, while Johannes Gelert created the police statue. The monument was dedicated on June 25, 1893, and became a National Historic Landmark in 1997.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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