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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.
298Documented
4In custody
274Released
Eras of repression in Illinois
Where Illinois’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 66
1960s 37
1970s 30
1980s 25
1930s 22
2020s 21
Documented cases
298 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Roberto Caldero
Released
Chicago Puerto Rican community organizer and MLN activist jailed for civil contempt after refusing to testify...
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Fred Chase
Released
One of the fifteen (age 25) who broke into the Chicago Selective Service office at 2355 W. 63rd Street and bur...
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Stephen Chuck
Released
Stephen Chuck was one of thirteen workers charged with rioting after police attacked an anti-imperialist demon...
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Michael Clark
Released
Michael Clark was a young Black man from Chicago's South Side and a member of De Mau Mau, an organization form...
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Terrence Clyne
Released
Terrence Clyne, 68, of Orland Park IL, was charged with misdemeanor battery and felony hate crime for punching...
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James Cook
Released
James Cook was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...
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Andrew Craig
Released
One of the 'Stateville Four,' Black prisoners at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois framed for the 197...
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Jane Curtiss
Released
Jane Curtiss was a Communist Party petition solicitor who was jailed at Lewistown (Fulton County), Illinois in...
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Max Danielevick
Released
Max Danielevick was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Camille DeRose
Released
Mrs. Camille DeRose was the owner of a Cicero, Illinois apartment building who rented to a Black family, the H...
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Henry Dee
Chicago man convicted with James Sayles and sentenced to death (May 1972), then resentenced to two consecutive...
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Jaime Delgado
Released
Puerto Rican political prisoner born April 9, 1953 in Newark, New Jersey. Counselor at Proyecto Palante at Nor...
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Leon Dent
Released
Leon Dent was a companion of the Reverend Charles Koen in the Black United Front of Cairo, Illinois. In Septem...
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James Dixon
Chicago man jailed 362 days in the Cook County Jail after being convicted of the attempted murder of a police...
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Julian Dombrouski
Released
Julian Dombrouski was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I...
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William A. Dunham
Released
William A. Dunham was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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William Durkin
Released
One of the youngest of the fifteen (Bill Durkin, age 19) who burned some 40,000 Chicago draft records on May 2...
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Joseph Eash
Released
Joseph Eash was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
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Richard Eells
Released
Dr. Richard Eells was a Quincy, Illinois physician and abolitionist. In 1842 he was arrested and charged with...
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Leo Fisher
Released
Leo Fisher was the editor of the Croatian-language weekly Narodni Glasnik in Chicago, denaturalized in 1956 in...
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Brian Flanagan
Released
Weather Underground / SDS member tried for attempted murder of Chicago city attorney Richard Elrod during the...
C
Christopher French
Released
Christopher French — anti-NATO summit arrestee, Chicago, May 2012. Disorderly conduct / mob action — anti-NATO...
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Charles Fullenkamp
Released
One of the fifteen (Chuck Fullenkamp, age 23) who burned some 40,000 Chicago draft records on May 25, 1969, an...
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Earl Gaither
Prisoner in the Marion federal penitentiary control unit (one of the 'Marion Brothers'), among Nation of Islam...
Institutions in Illinois
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Illinois that appear in the census’s case files.
Cook County JailChicago, Illinois
34 cases
MCC ChicagoChicago , Illinois
12 cases
Southern Illinois Penitentiary, ChesterChester, Illinois
7 cases
FCI Pekin Satellite CampPekin, Illinois
5 cases
USP MarionMarion, Illinois
5 cases
Woodstock Jail (McHenry County)
5 cases
FCI PekinPekin, Illinois
4 cases
Stateville Correctional CenterCrest Hill, Illinois
4 cases