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| Name | Street Address | City | State | Historical Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICWU/URW Worker Memorial | ICWU Headquarters | Akron | OH | The International Chemical Workers Union and the United Rubber Workers Union unveiled this joint memorial on Workers Memorial Day, 1992. Dedicated to the members who have been killed, or died in workplace tragedies since 1944. |
| Illinois Workers' Memorial | Capitol grounds (next to Monroe St.) |
Springfield | IL | Dedicated on Workers Memorial Day, 1992, the statue on the lawn of the state capitol remembers workers who have suffered and died at the workplace. Also honors those who fought to prevent such tragedies in the future. |
| ILWU Monument | Mission & Steuart Sts. | San Francisco | CA | Commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the ILWU, the monument commemorates the police killing of Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise on "Bloody Thursday," July 5, 1934. The incident sparked the 1934 general strike and led to the founding of the ILWU. |
| Irish Rail Workers' Monument | Funk's Grove Cemetery | Funk's Grove | IL | Many Irish immigrants worked on the central Illinois railways in the mid-1800s. The more than 50 Irish rail workers layed to rest in the mass graves are presumed victims of the 1850s cholera epidemic. |
| Ironworkers Memorial | Lorentz Ave., just west of Rt. 29 | Peoria | IL | On April 24, 2000, three Ironworkers lost their lives while working on the renovation of the McClugage Bridge. |
| Italian Hall | Italian Hall Memorial Park, 7th Street | Calumet | MI | The site where in 1913 at a Christmas Eve party for the children of striking miners, a person yelled fire. The false fire alarm triggered a panic. The doors only swung inward causing a press of human bodies. 73 people died, over half were children. |
| Italian-American Stonecutters Monument | Dente Park, corner of North Main Street and Maple Avenue | Barre | VT | Italian immigrants came to Barre in the late 1890s and early 1900s to work as stonecutters. The monument is dedicated to Carlo Abate, founder of the Barre Evening Drawing School where working people could learn the arts of vocational memorial design. |
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