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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 53 | |||||||
| 1900 | 3502 | 49 | ||||||
| 1910 | 3616 | 51 | ||||||
| 1920 | 5212 | 8 | ||||||
| 1930 | 4144 | 6 | ||||||
| 1940 | 5 | |||||||
| 1950 | 5116 | 2 | ||||||
| 1960 | 5440 | 16 | 1 | |||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 5416 | |||||||
| 2000 | 5685 | 5515 | 85 | |||||
| 2010 | 5917 | 5707 | 89 | 14 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In 1879, the black school was abolished, which led to bad feelings from whites who did not want blacks in the white schools. -WPA Writer’s Project
Blackburn college in Carlinville accepted its first black student in 1950. This was perhaps the cause of the increase in the African American population.
One resident suggested in 2012 that most of the African American population today is attributable to the college, which the resident says recruits many African Americans for athletics. -email, Summer 2012
Though the town does seem to have a substantial African American population now, it seems as though this could be entirely attributable to the college. All of the 89 African Americans in Carlinville in 2010 were between the ages of 18 and 24.