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The Anti-Defamation League said there has been an 80% increase in Illinois hate crimes in just 1 year. Planned Parenthood said it can tell.

It’s not illegal for hate groups to spread their message via leaflets or protests, and that’s happening far more often these days, an Anti-Defamation League report found. It’s important to stop their rhetoric before it leads to harm.

Lee Zoldan remembers the 2017 attack on her downtown synagogue every time she walks in the building. “Those windows were broken. Nazi stickers were placed on those doors,” the Chicago Loop Synagogue president recalled Tuesday. “The windows were replaced. The stickers were removed. But the invisible scars remain.” Years later, the same hate and extremism that shook Zoldan’s congregation has ...

David Goldenberg, the Midwest director of the Anti-Defamation League, joins Lisa Dent to talk about their report titled Hate in the Prairie State which identifies radical groups targeting the state, including white supremacist groups, anti-LGBTQ organizations, and why the number of those groups appear to be growing. Follow The Lisa Dent Show on Twitter:Follow @LisaDentSpeaksFollow […]

“In some ways, we think that we live in Illinois and somehow we’re immune to this,” said David Goldenberg, the Midwest director of the Anti-Defamation League.

Anti-Semitism and attacks on LGBTQ and women’s health increased in last three years in Illinois, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum invites the public to a free screening of the film "End of the Rope" at 2 p.m. Sept. 23.

The man accused of vandalizing a Lake in the Hills bakery ahead of a planned family-friendly drag show pleaded guilty to a felony hate crime charge in McHenry County court Wednesday. Prosecutors had charged Joseph Collins, 25, with a hate crime and criminal property damage and defacement after the July 2022 attack at UpRising Bakery and Cafe. The Alsip resident spray painted anti-LGBTQ+ ...

CHICAGO -- Last summer, a bakery in Chicago’s northwest suburbs was vandalized ahead of its plans to host a family-friendly drag show, leading to a cancellation of the sold-out event. For Corinna Sac, the UpRising Bakery and Cafe’s owner, the broken windows and spray-painted messages were only the beginning. In March, Sac told Illinois lawmakers that harassment stemming from the planned drag ...

Last summer, a bakery in Chicago’s northwest suburbs was vandalized ahead of its plans to host a family-friendly drag show, leading to a cancellation of the sold-out event. For Corinna Sac, the UpRising Bakery and Cafe’s owner, the broken windows and spray-painted messages were only the beginning. In March, Sac told Illinois lawmakers that harassment stemming from the planned drag show at her ...