You’ve probably heard of Bill Ayers, but have you heard of James Kilgore? He’s another former domestic terrorist whose paycheck is funded by Illinois taxpayers.

Matt Kaufman writes at The Federalist.

The University Of Illinois’ Other On-Staff Terrorist

In 2008, the nation learned that the University of Illinois had long had an ex-domestic terrorist on its faculty: Bill Ayers, the co-founder of the Weather Underground, who was teaching at the UI’s Chicago campus, and who happened to be an old colleague of Barack Obama. Controversy flared, but there wasn’t much UI officials could do about it, even if they wanted to. Ayers had tenure. They were stuck with him.

Now, however, it turns out they’ve got another staffer with a background strikingly similar to Ayers—this one without tenure. And whether they keep him around is very much up in the air.

He’s James Kilgore, an instructor at the UI’s main campus in Champaign-Urbana—and a veteran of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the 1970s revolutionary group best known for kidnapping heiress Patty Hearst, then recruiting or brainwashing her into joining their ranks.

Since 2010, Kilgore has held a variety of positions at the UI, most recently as an instructor and research scholar at the Center for African Studies, teaching about topics like “wealth and poverty in a globalized world.” He’s been active in the “social justice” movement, working to bring ex-fugitive Angela Davis to town last fall and escorting her on her visit.

While Kilgore’s background was known to some UI officials from the start, it wasn’t widely known to the general public until February. That’s when the local newspaper, The News-Gazette, published an in-depth story on the one-time revolutionary who took part in the SLA’s terror campaign, then spent the next 27 years as a fugitive.