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In Illinois, the two largest taxpayer-funded universities have now boasted bona fide American terrorists on their faculties. The University of Illinois at Chicago, a dismal and endless slab of concrete that is easily one of the ugliest campuses in America, was the well-known professional home of unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers from 1987 until his retirement in 2010. Until just recently, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the semi-prestigious flagship school of the state’s college system, employed James Kilgore, an adjunct instructor of global studies and urban planning, a felon and a former member of the infamous Symbionese Liberation...

A former member of the radical 1970s group the Symbionese Liberation Army says the University of Illinois has told him he'll lose his job teaching there. James Kilgore said Tuesday that he was told earlier this month that the university will not let him teach classes after this semester. He said he was not told why, but he suspects the university was pressured by donors or people with political connections.

Today: May 10, 2004 at 15:56:38 PDT Last SLA Member Sentenced to 6 Years By JIM WASSERMANASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The last fugitive member of the Symbionese Liberation Army to be brought to justice was sentenced Monday to six years in prison for the shotgun slaying of a bank customer during a 1975 holdup. James Kilgore, 56, who evaded authorities for more than two decades before his November 2002 arrest in South Africa, was the last of five SLA members sentenced for murdering Myrna Opsahl, 42. The housewife and mother of four was killed as she desposited a church...

US terror suspect Kilgore rearrested The US terror suspect James Kilgore was re-arrested on a fraud charge today, soon after an order for his release was granted by a Wynberg magistrate. Michael Evans, his attorney, said the charge was related to his entry into South Africa, allegedly under a false name. The arrest took place while he was still in the court building waiting for the court's order to be processed. Evans said Kilgore's legal team was trying to arrange a court, and prosecutor, to hear a bail application "now". The Wynberg Magistrate's court ordered that Kilgore, a former...