Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois

Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery in Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois. It was established in 1873. The grounds sit at about 623 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 142 notable people buried here, including Emma Goldman, Voltairine de Cleyre and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 408509. The nearest funeral home we know of is Zimmerman-Harnett Funeral Home in Forest Park, about 1.1 mi away. It is one of 187 cemeteries we list in Cook County, and 71 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Cook County dates to 1834. 23 of the 187 listings in Cook County have a phone number or website on record.

Among them: 16 writers, 13 journalists, 7 business leaders, 6 Civil War veterans, 5 artists, 5 musicians, 5 physicians, 4 World War II veterans.

• Emma Goldman1869-1940
  Russian-born American anarchist
• Voltairine de Cleyre1866-1912
  American anarchist writer and feminist
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn1890-1964
  American politician
• Joe Hill1879-1915
  Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
• Lucy Parsons1851-1942
  American communist anarchist labor organizer
• Joseph Dietzgen1828-1888
  German philosopher
• William Dudley Haywood1869-1928
  Labor organizer
• August Vincent Theodore Spies1855-1887
  American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor
• Gus Hall1910-2000
  American politician
• Raya Dunayevskaya1910-1987
  American philosopher
• Albert Parsons1848-1887
  American socialist and anarchist newspaper editor
• William Z. Foster1881-1961
  American labor organizer and Communist politician

People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest Home Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.

Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.

• Chevra Shomer Hadas #1

  Forest Park, IL
  Jewish cemetery

  0.1 mi
• Waldheim Cemetery

  Forest Park, IL
  Cemetery

  0.4 mi
• Altenheim Cemetery

  7824 Madison Street, Forest Park, IL
  Cemetery

  0.5 mi
• Concordia Cemetery

  7900 Madison Street, Forest Park, IL
  Cemetery

  0.7 mi
• Free Sons of Israel Cemetery

  North Riverside, IL
  Jewish cemetery

  0.8 mi
• Jewish Waldheim Cemeteries

  1400 Des Plaines Avenue, Forest Park, IL
  Jewish cemetery

  0.8 mi
• Woodlawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park Cemetery

  7600 Cermak Road, Forest Park, IL
  Memorial park

  1.2 mi
• Menorah Gardens

  Broadview, IL
  Jewish cemetery

  1.9 mi
• Glen Oak Cemetery

  4301 Roosevelt Road, Hillside, IL
  Cemetery

  3.3 mi
• Parkholm Cemetery

  2501 North La Grange Road, La Grange Park, IL
  Cemetery

  3.4 mi

• Zimmerman-Harnett Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Forest Park · (708) 366-2200
  1.1 mi
• Woodlawn Funeral Home & Memorial Park

  Funeral home · Forest Park · (708) 442-8500
  1.3 mi
• Parkwyn Funeral Home and Crematory

  Cremation provider · Berwyn · (708) 788-0904
  1.4 mi
• Berwyn Cicero Cremation Society

  Cremation provider · Berwyn · (708) 788-7776
  1.4 mi
• I.j. Cannon Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Maywood · (708) 216-2900
  1.4 mi
• Corbin Colonial Funeral Chapel

  Funeral chapel · Maywood · (708) 410-0287
  1.4 mi

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