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?
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | 2607 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 3040 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 4797 | 6 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In 2001, a Univeristy of Illinois Chicago student remarked, “They’re some of the most closed-minded people I know.”
A resident of a nearby town comments that the border may have had a sign bluntly stating that blacks were not welcome.
A Coal City female student at Illinois Wesleyan would not bring her black roommate home lest her roommate be called “nigger.”