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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

Hate crimes in Illinois are up. Fight back against the propaganda that fuels them.

Patriot Front, a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center classified as a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America after the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, march down South Michigan Avenue in the Loop as anti-abortion activists march across the street during a March for Life rally, Saturday afternoon, Jan. 8, 2022. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Many Illinoisans, especially Chicagoans, often think of our blue state as a bubble cocooned from most of the vile forces that inflame hatred.

That sense of comfort is only an illusion. 

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