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Antisemitic incidents and white supremacist propaganda doubled in Illinois last year, the watchdog group’s report shows. Statewide hate crimes have risen 80% since 2020, it continued.
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 ...