Socialist Party of Illinois

The Socialist Party of Illinois (SPIL) is a political party in the state of Illinois. It was affiliated with the Socialist Party of America. It was founded in September 1901, though the grouping met in 1900 at a convention in Chicago and supported Eugene V. Debs for president in 1900. It was the successor to the Social Democratic Party of America.[1]

In 1915, the party had 6,004 members. 44 party members held public office in that year, including one mayor, 18 aldermen and 2 members of the Illinois House of Representatives among others. The Chicago Socialist was the newspaper of the Socialist Party of Illinois.[1]

The Chicago Socialist Party was the most active local in the SPIL and one of the most active in the United States.[2] It is now an affiliate of the Socialist Party USA.

  1. ^ a b Commission, Illinois. Centennial; Alvord, Clarence Walworth; Pease, Theodore Calvin; Arthur Charles Cole; Ernest Ludlow Bogart; Solon Justus Buck (1920). The Centennial History of Illinois. The Commission. pp. 174–. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  2. ^ Kreuter, Kent; Kreuter, Gretchen (2015-01-13). An American Dissenter: The Life of Algie Martin Simons 1870--1950. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 86–. ISBN 9780813163703. Retrieved 21 April 2016.