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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
Recent dashboard entries from Illinois
The newest published events and reporting located in Illinois, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
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Marimar Martinez sues federal government over Border Patrol shooting
Prosecution
Immigration judge finds Salah Sarsour deportable; his lawyers plan an appeal
Prosecution
Broadview Six prosecutor resigns, alleging U.S. attorney directed the failed felony prosecution
Protest
Federal agents mace 10 protesters outside the Broadview ICE facility; two are hospitalized
Prosecution
Broadview 6 grand jury transcripts released, showing alleged prosecutorial misconduct
Prosecution
Now-cleared ‘Broadview 6’ immigration protesters seek evidence of White House pressure to indict
Protest
Hundreds rally in Morris against a proposed hyperscale data center
Prosecution
Charges dropped against four Broadview ICE protesters over misconduct
Documented cases
716 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Sara Schneider
Released
Sara Schneider was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’...
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Ralph Shaw
Ralph Shaw, the Communist Party’s Southern Illinois section organizer, was held in Belleville on a vagrancy ac...
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Frank Shea
Frank Shea was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company i...
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David Sheean
Released
David Sheean was arrested on August 28, 1862.
Marshall describes Sheean as a Galena, Illinois lawyer arrested...
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Mary Shimchuk
Mary Shimchuk was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Compan...
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Ira Silbar
Released
Ira Silbar was the defense attorney for the three petition solicitors, himself jailed alongside his clients an...
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Rose Silver
Released
Rose Silver was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Uni...
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Norman Silverman
Released
Norman Silverman was a Chicago furrier arrested about three weeks after the July 1951 Cicero housing riot for...
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Oscar Simons
Released
Oscar Simons was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un...
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John Sims
Released
John Sims was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Relief ros...
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Roscoe T. Sims
Roscoe T. Sims is named as Roscoe T. Sims in the May 1920 Chicago conspiracy roster among defendants indicted...
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Frank Sjoberg
Frank Sjoberg was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Compan...
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Van Skedine
Released
Van Skedine was sentenced in a federal court to one year in prison for refusing to register for the draft. Whi...
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Tony Skel
Tony Skel was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company in...
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Stanislaw Skorusa
Stanislaw Skorusa was a prisoner at Menard in Illinois who advocated prison reform, assisted fellow prisoners...
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John Sloan
Released
John Sloan was a coal miner and union activist from Westville, Illinois. He served as chairman of the pit comm...
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Fred Smith
Fred Smith is named as Fred Smith in the May 1920 Chicago conspiracy roster among defendants indicted in Janua...
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Joe Smith
Joe Smith was one of the Pontiac 17 held in Cook County Jail on charges arising from the July 1978 Pontiac pri...
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W. E. Smith
W. E. Smith was already under arrest at the Tamaroa railroad station when Walter S. Hawkes encountered him, ac...
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William O. Smith
Released
William O. Smith was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Louis Sokoloff
Louis Sokoloff was a Chicago International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union picket imprisoned for picketing duri...
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Charles Sotis
Released
Charles Sotis organized Chicago stockyards workers for the Communist Party. Police seized him at a party fundr...
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Mary Spencer
Mary Spencer was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company...
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Denzal Stewart
Released
Denzal Stewart was charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Transit Authority van during a...
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