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?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1990 | 503 | |||||||
| 2000 | 491 | 479 | 0 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“‘Race hatred reached a high pitch’ in the town of Buffalo, 15 miles from Springfield. In front of the interurban station there, whites had set up a large sign that read: “All niggers are warned out of town by Monday, 12 %u2014 sharp. Buffalo Sharp Shooters.” (Illinois State Register, 8/17 or 18/1908, quoted in Roberta Senechal, The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot (Urbana: U of IL P, 1990), 129.)