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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1960 | 3546 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 2885 | 2 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 3567 | 3546 | 7 | |||||
| 2000 | 4048 | 3990 | 4 | |||||
| 2010 | 4442 | 8 | 2 | |||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- German Catholic
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to a local genealogist, “They all seemed to have the same kind of law: that you could come to town but couldn’t stay past 5PM.”
During some year in the 1960s, Chicago Carver High School traveled to Breese to for a basketball game. A fight broke out before the out of the end of the game and the game was called early.
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One resident said that he heard there is a klan cemetery in the town on private property. email; 2010