Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 61(MCD) | |||||||
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| 1960 | 17(MCD) | |||||||
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| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 581 | 6 | ||||||
| 2000 | 619 | 26 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“Karnak has blacks now.” —
In 1940, every MCD of Pulaski County had at least 80 blacks (and only Wetaug had as few as 80, among 561 total); most had at least 200; except Karnak, which had just 9, among 1100 residents. So Karnak was probably sundown, in accord with “Karnak has blacks now,” above. Why else would it be so different? But note: there do seem to be blacks in Karnak; see pop. figs. at left. But some of these figures may be for the MCD; Karnak lies at the top of its MCD and the “dead line” may be just south of Karnak.
2/2004, Jack Tichenor tells me a black friend from Villa Ridge, IL, refused to go into Karnak after dark to buy charcoal, “I can’t go into that town,” 1992 or ’93.