Illinois

Christian Frazee

In Custody

Christian Frazee, of Lombard IL, was arrested June 1, 2020 near the Lombard Municipal Complex and charged with...

Larry Hoover

In Custody

Larry Hoover was the founder of the Chicago’s Gangster Disciples, a politically active street gang that helped...

Abdullah Malik Ka’bah

In Custody

Abdullah Malik Ka’bah, born Jeff Fort in Aberdeen, Mississippi, moved with his family to Chicago’s Woodlawn ne...

Elias Rodriguez

In Custody

Elias Rodriguez was arrested on May 21, 2025. Chicago resident charged in the May 21, 2025 shooting deaths of...

Harry Haywood

Harry Haywood was a Communist speaker at Chicago’s Hands Off Ethiopia anti-war demonstration on August 31, 193...

Ortez Alderson

Ortez Alderson was a Black gay-liberation and anti-Vietnam War activist. A 2006 historical account identifies...

Larry Allen Abshier

In Exile

Larry Allen Abshier was a U.S. Army private stationed in South Korea who left his post and crossed the demilit...

Kat Abughazaleh

Released

Kat was a journalist, media analyst, and Democratic political candidate. Federally charged along with five co-...

John Adams

Released

John Adams was one of the unemployed demonstrators detained at Hillsboro, Illinois in 1934. A June27 letter by...

Marcello Africano

Released

Marcello Africano is a U.S. citizen detained by federal immigration agents in Evanston on October 31, 2025 aft...

Eqbal Ahmad

Released

Eqbal Ahmad was a Pakistani-American political scientist born in Bihar, partition refugee, Princeton PhD 1967....

Brent Dow Allinson

Released

Brent Dow Allinson was charged with desertion. Sentenced to fifteen-to-twenty-five years (reduced to four), he...

Olin B. Anderson

Released

Olin B. Anderson was a press agent for the IWW from Kalispell, Montana. Olin B. Anderson was convicted at the...

George Andreytchine

Released

George Andreytchine was a Bulgarian-born IWW organizer and editor active in the Minnesota Mesabi Range iron st...

Catherine Antonelli

Catherine Antonelli was arrested in Chicago during the August 2024 Democratic National Convention protest peri...

Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi

Released

Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi was born in Lajas, Puerto Rico. He moved to New York at 15 and later became active in...

Enaam M. Arnaout

Released

Enaam M. Arnaout, an Illinois man believed to have had connections to Osama bin Laden, ran a charity that the...

Charles Ashleigh

Released

Charles Ashleigh was an English-born IWW poet, journalist, and orator who delivered the eulogy at the 1916 fun...

Bill Ayers

Released

William was a founder and central organizer of the Weather Underground Organization who went underground in 19...

Erich Becker

Released

Erich Becker was a Chicago shopkeeper who entered the United States in April 1928. He was arrested on June 11,...

Buddy Bell

Released

Buddy R. Bell is a Voices for Creative Nonviolence organizer who has been arrested repeatedly for civil disobe...

Harold Keith Bell

Released

Harold Keith Bell survived the December 4, 1969 Chicago raid that killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and was a...

Brent Betterly

Released

Brent Betterly was one of the "NATO 3," arrested before the 2012 Chicago NATO summit and acquitted of terroris...

Shamar Betts

Released

Shamar Betts was arrested on June 5, 2020. Facebook flyer that incited the May 31 2020 Champaign mall riot; f...