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The Haymarket Martyrs got a monument of their own in the cemetery where they rest, initiated and funded by working-class people—not “city fathers.

It's been an open secret for almost two years that something important was buried next to the historic Haymarket Martyr's Monument in Forest Park. On Oct. 3, archaeologists and volunteers dug up an object they think may be an 1892 time capsule containing letters, trial documents and other artifacts from Chicago's Haymarket Affair.

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