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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 8526 | |||||||
| 2000 | 8196 | 8077 | 11 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Other
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A local genealogist said there was a sign in West Frankfort during the early 1970s.
On 8/20/1923, 8500 members of the Ku Klux Klan met two miles east of W. Frankfort and inducted 400 new members. (Winifred M. Henson, History of Franklin County, IL (Colorado State College of Education, MA Thesis, 1942), 151.)