Rockefeller Chapel – Laurens Shull Memorial

Limestone doughboy above a west entrance. Laurens Corning “Spike” Shull (January 17, 1894 – August 5, 1918) was an All American football player who was killed during World War I. He played football, baseball and basketball for the University of Chicago from 1913-1916. He died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Chateau Thierry in July 1918 and was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

Marshall WWI Monument Fernwood Park WWI Memorial

In 1919, the citizens of Fernwood donated a World War I veterans’ monument. In 2019, the boulder remained but the plaque was gone. Park employees speculated that the plaque had gone missing in the 1970s or 80s.

Peace Memorial

Restoration needed.

East St. Louis Bar Assoc. WWI Memorial

c. 1920. Could not locate at time of site visit in 2019.

Ridge Park Memorials

No apparent WWI Memorial. Ridge Park includes a number of monuments to veterans of various wars. In the early 1990s, the park district grouped these together in a single memorial area when the community sought to recognize Beverly resident and U.S. Marine Corps Captain William J. Hurley (1963 1991), who died while on a training mission during the Desert Storm conflict.

Hinsdale Victory Sculpture

Inside the Hinsdale Memorial Building

Centralia Doughboy and Memorial Trees

Doughboy on granite base

Horace Ortt Memorial in Haymarket Square Park

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF/ HORACE F. ORTT/ WHO GAVE HIS LIFE ON THE FIELDS OF/ FRANCE OCTOBER 4, 1918, AND WAS/ AWARDED THE AMERICAN DISTINGUISHED/ SERVICE CROSS FOR EXTRAORIDINARY/ HEROISM IN ACTION/ ERECTED BY HORACE F. ORTT POST/ NO. 540 VETERANS OF FOREIGN/ WARS OF THE UNITED STATES OF/ AMERICA

Bohemian Cemetery – Stieber Memorial