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Illinois

Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Illinois.

716Documented
5In custody
402Released

Eras of repression in Illinois

Where Illinois’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1920s 169 1930s 134 1960s 70 1910s 69 2020s 63 1970s 60

Documented cases

716 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

E
Ed Gargan
Released
Ed Gargan was one of the Chicago 15 arrested after the group burned about 40,000 Selective Service records on...
F
Frank Gaskins
Released
Frank was a Black prisoner held two and a half years in the Marion federal penitentiary's behavior-modificatio...
C
C. Gaudio
C. Gaudio was an Italian unemployed Chicago worker arrested with supporters after an eviction. The ILD report...
R
Rev. David Gerdes
Released
Rev. David Gerdes was a Dunkard from Chicago, Illinois. Rev. David Gerdes began serving a prison sentence on N...
B
Bessie Gettman
Released
Bessie Gettman was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’...
G
George Gibbs
Released
George Gibbs was a Communist Party petition solicitor who was jailed at Lewistown (Fulton County), Illinois in...
C
Ca'Quintez Gibson
Released
Ca'Quintez Gibson was charged with using the internet to incite a riot. He made a series of Facebook Live post...
W
Wallace Gibson
Wallace Gibson was arrested during the August 12, 1930 meeting of the Unemployed Council at 900 South Paulina...
E
Ernest Giuliani
Released
Ernest Giuliani was a Westville, Illinois miner prosecuted with John Sloan and Frank Suchaczewski in 1938. Aft...
J
Julius Goebel
Julius Goebel is named as Julius Goebel in the May 1920 Chicago conspiracy roster among defendants indicted in...
F
Fannie Goldberg
Released
Fannie Goldberg was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’...
V
Viola Goldstein
Viola Goldstein was individually named among eleven Chicago garment pickets arrested Wednesday, March 19, 1924...
F
F. M. Goodell
F. M. Goodell is named as F. M. Goodell in the May 1920 Chicago conspiracy roster among defendants indicted in...
R
Rose Goodman
Released
Rose Goodman was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un...
M
Mary Goorvitch
Mary Goorvitch was a Chicago garment striker named on the four-woman committee appealing for support on March...
R
Richard Gordon
In Exile
Richard Gordon was a U.S. Army sergeant from Chicago and one of 21 American Korean War prisoners who refused r...
J
James Gossard
Released
James Gossard was from Urbana, Illinois. James Gossard was arrested and scheduled for trial at the mass IWW tr...
B
Bert Grace
Bert Grace was one of five union miners tried at Marion, Illinois, for Howard Hoffman’s death in the Herrin af...
A
Andrea Beverly Graves
Released
Andrea Beverly Graves was a licensed practical nurse in the Chicago Black Panther Party’s health cadre. She wa...
E
Emil F. Greco
Emil F. Greco was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Compan...
B
Ben Grey
Released
Ben Grey was a Young Communist League speaker arrested in Chicago on September 6, 1930 during police raids on...
F
Frank Gurnaski
Frank Gurnaski was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Compa...
R
Ray Gusitz
Ray Gusitz was individually named among eleven Chicago garment pickets arrested Wednesday, March 19, 1924. The...
J
Joe Hadick
Joe Hadick was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company i...

Institutions in Illinois

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Illinois that appear in the census’s case files.

Cook County JailChicago, Illinois
57 cases
Chicago police lockupChicago, Illinois
9 cases
MCC ChicagoChicago , Illinois
8 cases
Woodstock Jail (McHenry County)
7 cases
Southern Illinois Penitentiary, ChesterChester, Illinois
6 cases
FCI Pekin Satellite CampPekin, Illinois
5 cases
USP MarionMarion, Illinois
5 cases
FCI PekinPekin, Illinois
4 cases