I think the Klan was revived in the 1920s to bring law and order to the area. The criminals (bootleggers) had taken over and the honest citizens were in a fervor. The KKK in southern Illinois (at least, in Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties) were not anti-black as in the southern part of the US. Mostly they called on their neighbors...they might call upon a man who had been unfair in a business deal, had sold liquor to under age children, had a house of ill repute, beat his wife etc, etc, etc. I don't think there were any cross burnings.