Nearly 50 instructors from public and private colleges across Illinois are named in an online database dubbed “Professor Watchlist” that was created by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk to unmask “radical professors,” WBEZ has found.

Since landing on the list, some professors have gotten hateful emails, online messages and letters threatening rape or death, and in some instances, have seen that activity intensify since Kirk’s death.

WBEZ reached out to all of the roughly four dozen Illinois-based instructors on the non-profit Turning Point USA list. Among those who responded, all said the allegations lodged against them were distortions of their work.

The site includes the professors’ names, headshots, a brief description on what they did to land on the li

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