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?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1970 | 847 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | 1179 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990 | 1139 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1089 | 1082 | 0 | |||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Mt. Vernon is the next big city over from wayne county and has a large black population. Growing up, we were strongly urged not to go to that town and to go to Fairfield instead. It was though of as a crime filled town with drugs.
I did get a feeling that the whole county was white on purpose. There was a KKK house outside of Fairfield that wasnt out of commission for that long from what I heard back then.-Acoording to a student who moved to Wayne City in the mid-1980s.