Illinois

Jerry Rubin

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Jerry Rubin was a Berkeley anti-Vietnam War organizer and co-founder, with Abbie Hoffman, of the Youth Interna...

Bobby Rush

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Bobby Rush co-founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party with Fred Hampton in 1968 and survived t...

Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah

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Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah, 51, was indicted August 19, 2004 in Chicago for HAMAS recruitment / material supp...

Viola Salgado

Viola Salgado helped found Chicago’s West Town Community Law Office and volunteered as an office manager and p...

Ronald Satchel

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Illinois Black Panther Party member shot four times surviving the Dec. 4, 1969 police raid on Fred Hampton's a...

Sam Scarlett

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Sam Scarlett was a machinist and IWW lecturer from Chicago, Illinois. Sam Scarlett was convicted at the mass I...

William Schiller

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William “Bill” Schiller was an early Peace Corps volunteer who became an opponent of the Vietnam War after the...

Alfred Schneider

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Alfred Schneider was among the Chicago anarchists arrested in the September 6-7, 1901 roundup after the shooti...

Michael Schwab

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Michael Schwab was a German-born bookbinder and assistant editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung. He had been at a sep...

Minnie Seidel

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Minnie Seidel was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ U...

Sebastian Senakiewicz

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Sebastian Senakiewicz — anti-NATO summit arrestee, Chicago, May 2012. Polish national charged under Illinois t...

Catherine Sharp

Catherine Sharp was prosecuted over an anti-ICE protest at Broadview in September 2025. The case ended without...

Cole Sheridan

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Cole Sheridan was arrested during an October 3, 2025 protest outside the Broadview immigration facility and ja...

Ignatz Simich

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Ignatz Simich was one of the eight miners convicted in March 1926 in the "Zeigler frame-up" — the prosecution...

Martin Simich

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Martin Simich (Martin Simmich in the court opinion) was a Zeigler, Illinois miner prosecuted after the August...

H. Austin Simons

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H. Austin Simons was a writer and conscientious objector imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, where he was a leader...

Dan Slinger

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Dan Slinger was a National Miners’ Union organizer from Eldorado, Illinois. He was jailed during the Illinois...

Charles Thomas Smit

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Charles Thomas "Tom" Smit (March 7, 1944 - May 10, 2018) was one of the Chicago 15. On May 25, 1969 the group...

August Spies

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August Spies was a German-born anarchist labor organizer and editor of the Chicago Arbeiter-Zeitung, the leadi...

Robin Staples

Robin Staples of Nokomis, Illinois, was individually named among ten leaders arrested June 3, 1934 during the...

Charles Steinbruegge

Charles Steinbruegge was arrested in Chicago during the August2024 Democratic National Convention protest peri...

Joffre Stewart

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Joffre Stewart was a Chicago-based African-American pacifist, poet, and anti-conscription activist who refused...

Bill Steyert

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Bill Steyert was jailed following an anti-nuclear protest at the LaSalle nuclear power plant in Illinois. A co...

Brian Straw

Brian Straw was prosecuted over an anti-ICE protest at Broadview in September 2025. The case ended without con...