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White nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, surrounded by counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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Rescue workers and medics tend to people who were injured when a car plowed through a crowd of counterdemonstrators marching Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counterprotesters as they attempt to guard the entrance to Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march toward Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Counterprotesters link arms and sing outside Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march toward Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, during the "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Counterprotesters and white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the so-called alt-right exchange volleys of pepper spray during the Unite the Right rally at Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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A white nationalist demonstrator walks into Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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A man makes a slashing motion across his throat toward counterprotesters as he marches with other white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" during the "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Anti-fascist counterprotesters wait outside Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, to hurl insults as white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" are forced out after the "Unite the Right" rally was declared an unlawful gathering Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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White nationalist demonstrators clash with a counterdemonstrator as he throws a newspaper box at the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency and police dressed in riot gear ordered people to disperse after violent clashes between white nationalists and counterprotesters.
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A Virginia State Police officer in riot gear keeps watch from the top of an armored vehicle after a car plowed through a crowd of counterdemonstrators marching Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march toward Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, during the "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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A Virginia State Trooper secures the area where a car ran into a crowd of protesters on Aug. 12, 2017, in downtown Charlottesville, Va.
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A counterprotester aims the lit liquid of a spray can at a white nationalist demonstrator at the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" are confronted by protesters as they march toward Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalist Richard Spencer and his supporters clash with Virginia State Police in Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, after the "Unite the Right" rally was declared an unlawful gathering on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" exchange insults with counterprotesters as they enter Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, during the "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Counterprotesters line the route taken by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" during the "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus on Aug. 11, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them.
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A woman receives first aid after a car ran into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017.
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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalist demonstrators clash with counterdemonstrators at the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017.
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A vehicle reverses after driving into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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A counterdemonstrator marches down the street after the "Unite the Right" rally, a gathering of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right," was declared an unlawful gathering Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with police as they are forced out of Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, after the "Unite the Right" rally was declared an unlawful gathering Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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Virginia State Police cordon off an area around the site where a car ran into a group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalists rally at Emancipation Park on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the so-called alt-right clash with counterprotesters as they enter Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Rescue workers and medics tend to people who were injured when a car plowed through a crowd of counterdemonstrators marching Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" with body armor and combat weapons take refuge in an alleyway after the "Unite the Right" rally was declared a unlawful gathering by Virginia State Police on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.
The Illinois Senate on Sunday adopted a resolution urging law enforcement officials to recognize white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations.
The resolution comes in response to the violent weekend in Charlottesville, Va., where a woman who was protesting a rally staged by white nationalists was killed after a driver who participated in the rally drove a car into a line of vehicles.
“It is vital that we stand in total opposition to the hatred, bigotry and violence displayed by the white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups in Charlottesville this past weekend,” said sponsoring Sen. Don Harmon, D-Oak Park. “They are the heirs to the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis. We fought two bloody wars in opposition to their ideologies. We must continue to fight those same twisted ideologies today.”
