"Date","City","State","Type","Description"
"09/13/2012","Chicago","IL","Assault","Two men walking along the lakefront were allegedly verbally assaulted by two men who believed the pair was gay. A Cook County prosecutor was stabbed after trying to stop the incident from escalating into a physical assault."
"09/01/2012","Tinley Park","IL","Assault","A white man allegedly yelled racial slurs and attacked a black man who was working near his home. Joseph Berndt, 47, was charged with a felony hate crime and aggravated assault and battery."
"08/29/2012","Monnmouth","IL","Vandalism","A racial slur was carved into the door of a predominantly black church."
"07/31/2012","Belleville","IL","Vandalism","Codie M. Engelke, 18, was charged with one count of burglary, one count of criminal damage to property and one count of hate crime after he allegedly vandalized a church and wrote a racial epithet inside."
"07/12/2012","Chicago","IL","Legal Developments","Two white teens, ages 17 and 16, were charged with committing a hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint, intimidation, aggravated battery and battery in connection with a December 2011 incident. The teenagers, along with Matthew Herrmann, 18, allegedly put a noose around a black high school student's neck, threatened him with a knife and used racial slurs while holding him captive."
"07/10/2012","Elmburst","IL","Legal Developments","Myles Burton, 21, a former Elmhurst College student, was sentenced to two years of probation for scratching the letters `KKK` and a racial slur on a window ledge outside a black dorm supervisor's room."
"07/01/2012","Plainfield","IL","Assault","Nicholas Minniti, 18, was charged with a felony hate crime and aggravated battery for allegedly assaulting a gay teen at a fast-food restaurant."
"06/25/2012","Skokie","IL","Assault","A white couple was allegedly attacked by three black teens who yelled racist remarks at them."
"06/03/2012","Crest Hill","IL","Assault","A man allegedly yelled racial epithets at a black man in a convenience store then fired a BB gun outside, damaging a gas pump and shattering a window. Nicholas Tsantrizos, 22, was charged with aggravated battery, committing a hate crime, vandalism and disorderly conduct."
"06/02/2012","Oak Park","IL","Arson","A gay nightclub was set afire and anti-gay remarks allegedly were written inside."
"05/30/2012","Joliet","IL","Legal Developments","Brian Moudry, 35, a former official in  the white supremacist World Church of the Creator, was charged with arson, using fire to interfere with housing rights on the basis of race and using fire to commit another felony after he allegedly set fire in 2007 to the house of a black family while they slept."
"05/26/2012","Plainfield","IL","Legal Developments","Jacob D. Kozak, 24, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for threatening to kill a man because he was Jewish."
"05/15/2012","Elmhurst","IL","Legal Developments","Myles Burton, 21, a former basketball player at Elmhurst College, was convicted of a felony hate crime for etching the letters `KKK` and racist remarks on the home of the school's only black dorm supervisor in November."
"05/03/2012","Carpentersville","IL","Legal Developments","James Luecke, a 47-year-old white man, was charged with hate crime, criminal trespass to a residence and criminal damage to property after he allegedly kicked in the door to his black neighbor's house and yelled racial epithets at her because he thought she left trash on his lawn."
"04/21/2012","Normal","IL","Assault","A gay student at Illinois State University allegedly was attacked by a group of black men who yelled anti-gay slurs."
"04/17/2012","Oak Park","IL","Assault","A white man was allegedly attacked by a black man who reportedly was upset about the February shooting death of an unarmed black Florida teen by a neighborhood watch volunteer. Alton Hayes III, 18, was charged with aggravated battery, a hate crime and robbery."
"03/28/2012","Chicago","IL","Vandalism","Anti-Semitic remarks were spray- painted on a local synagogue."
"03/27/2012","Monmouth","IL","Vandalism","A gay man's rainbow flag was set afire in his yard."
"01/18/2012","Springfield","IL","Legal Developments","Thomas Gleason, 24, pled guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to violate civil rights, religious property damage because of race and damage to religious property by use of fire, for his part in burning a black church after the 2008 presidential election. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison."
"01/13/2012","Bartlett","IL","Vandalism","A racial epithet was spray-painted at a high school."
"01/10/2012","Chicago","IL","Legal Developments","Three white teens allegedly put a noose around a 17-year-old black youth's neck and used racial epithets as they put a knife to his throat and threatened to kill him in December. Matthew Hermann, 18; a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old, were charged with felony counts of unlawful restraint and hate crime and misdemeanor battery."