Hate crimes tripled in Illinois between 2017 and 2022
CHICAGO -- A Plainfield Township landlord accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old boy, and critically wounding his mother, pleaded not guilty to all charges Monday.Joseph Czuba, 71, was formally indicted last week on three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery, and two counts of hate crime. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday morning in Will County.
A spike in anti-Israeli and anti-Palestinian hate crimes in recent weeks is similar to spikes seen toward Muslim Americans after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and toward Asian Americans at the height of the COVID pandemic.Last year there were over 11,000 hate crimes nationally – and 300 in Illinois. Of those, about half are race related, 20 percent are related to religion, and the rest are a mixture of motives.
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