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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.
718Documented
6In custody
382Released
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 64
1970s 61
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
718 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Nathan A Bieneman
Nathan A Bieneman was arrested in Chicago during the August2024 Democratic National Convention protest period....
Daniel R Blalock
Daniel R Blalock was arrested in Chicago during the August2024 Democratic National Convention protest period....
Ralph P. Bock
Ralph P. Bock was detained in the United States in the1998 New Order weapons prosecution. Contemporaneous Asso...
Florence B. Boggs
Florence B. Boggs was arrested during the August 2024 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago and h...
George E. Breoner
George E. Breoner was arrested during the August 2024 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago and h...
Dana Briggs
Released
Dana Briggs was a 70-year-old Air Force veteran arrested during a September 27, 2025 protest outside the Broad...
Emanuel Bronner
Released
Emanuel Bronner was an entrepreneur and peace activist who created Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps. After his family...
William Bross Lloyd
Released
William Bross Lloyd was a founder and leader of the Communist Labor Party. Arrested in the 1920 Palmer-era rai...
LeRoy Nathaniel Bundy
Released
LeRoy Nathaniel Bundy was a dentist and the principal Black political organizer in East St. Louis, Illinois at...
Jacob Burck
Released
Jacob Burck was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago newspaper cartoonist and former Communist Party member. Immig...
William E. Burns
William E. Burns was a railroad worker and American Railway Union director imprisoned at Woodstock, Illinois,...
Sean Cardenas
Released
Sean Cardenas, 20, of Rockford, IL was indicted by a federal grand jury on January 12, 2021 on one count of ma...
Ralph Chaplin
Released
Ralph Chaplin was from Chicago, Illinois. Ralph Chaplin was sentenced to twenty years in prison at the IWW tri...
Jared Chase
Released
Jared "Jay" Chase was one of the "NATO 3," anarchists arrested before the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago in what...
Brian Church
Released
Brian Jacob Church was one of the "NATO 3." Arrested in a Chicago police entrapment operation before the 2012...
Mark Clark
Released
Mark Clark was a 22-year-old leader of the Peoria, Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Born in Peoria...
Colin Clifton
Colin Clifton was arrested in Chicago during the August2024 Democratic National Convention protest period. Chi...
Terrence Clyne
Released
Terrence Clyne, 68, of Orland Park IL, was charged with misdemeanor battery and felony hate crime for punching...
Ray Collins
Released
Ray Collins was arrested during a September 27, 2025 protest outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. The...
Frank Corbishley
Released
Frank Corbishley was the brother of Zeigler union leader Henry Corbishley. Frank Corbishley was first held by...
Henry Corbishley
Released
Henry Corbishley was a militant United Mine Workers local leader in the Ku Klux Klan-ridden coal town of Zeigl...
Edwin Cortes
Released
Edwin Cortes is a Puerto Rican nationalist associated with the FALN-era underground independence movement. He...
John Cross
Released
John Cross was an abolitionist pastor openly defiant of the Fugitive Slave Law, who publicized his Underground...
Rennie Davis
Released
Rennie Davis was a leading SDS organizer and one of the principal coordinators of the Mobe (National Mobilizat...
Institutions in Illinois
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Illinois that appear in the census’s case files.
Cook County JailChicago, Illinois
58 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