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?
- Unlikely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 0
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 3048 | 9 | ||||||
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| 1970 | 9881 | 7 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 10792 | 32 | ||||||
| 2000 | 12784 | 157 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
Near Kankakee, “very white racist; segregated busing,” acc. to U of I students, 10/2000.
As of the census of 2000, The racial makeup of the village was 95.62% White, 1.23% African American.
According to a resident who grew up in Bourbonnais, IL. from 1953-1961: “In that period Bradley was not a “sundown” town, and there was a predominantly Black neighborhood that straddled the line from Bradley to Kankakee.”