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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.

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Carl Hampton
Carl Hampton is named as a United Front photographer arrested in Cairo on August 15, 1970 after being physical...
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Brenda Harris
Released
Brenda Harris survived the December 4, 1969 Chicago raid that killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and was among...
Y
Yonte Harris
Released
Yonte Harris was arrested during protests against the NATO summit in Chicago on May 20, 2012. Police alleged t...
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Sam Harter
Sam Harter was an unemployed Black worker in Chicago living with his wife and young son. A worker corresponden...
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Philip I. Hauser
Released
Philip I. Hauser was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Walter S. Hawkes
Walter S. Hawkes was arrested on August 22, 1862. Marshall describes Hawkes as a surveyor and civil engineer...
W
William Haynes
William Haynes is named in Marshall's account of Walter S. Hawkes among the men already under arrest at the Ta...
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Edward R. Heiser
Released
Edward R. Heiser was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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John Heminek
John Heminek was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company...
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Frank Herman
Frank Herman was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company...
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Jerry Herrod
Jerry Herrod is individually named as arrested on April 17, 1970, in the Cairo parade incident. The chronology...
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Ed G. Heth
Released
Ed G. Heth was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...
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Harrison Heyward
Released
Harrison Heyward was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Jessie Hill
Jessie Hill was one of the Pontiac 17 held in Cook County Jail on charges arising from the July 1978 Pontiac p...
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Peter Hiller
Peter Hiller was one of five union miners tried at Marion, Illinois, for Howard Hoffman’s death in the Herrin...
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Charles Hoelscher
Released
Charles Hoelscher was an Edwardsville unemployed-workers activist and Daily Worker seller. Page 1’s August 7 d...
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Rev. Bill Hogan
Released
Rev. Bill Hogan was jailed following an anti-nuclear protest at the LaSalle nuclear power plant in Illinois. A...
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James K. Holley
Released
James K. Holley was one of the Carbondale 3 — Southern Illinois University students and Black Panthers arreste...
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Frank Hollis
Frank Hollis was arrested twice in separate incidents documented in the Cairo chronology. The Cairo chronolog...
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Henry Hollman
Henry Hollman was among workers arrested at a Chicago street meeting at Belmont and Wilton Avenues in August 1...
E
Ernest Holmen
Ernest Holmen is named as Ernest Holmen in the May 1920 Chicago conspiracy roster among defendants indicted in...
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Harvey Holt
Harvey Holt was a Chicago Black Panther Party security worker taken into custody in the June 4, 1969 FBI raid...
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Enos Melvin Hooley
Released
Enos Melvin Hooley was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...
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Yetta Hornstein
Released
Yetta Hornstein was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’...

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