Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- S. Chicago
- 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
- 0
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1970 | 4656 | 0 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 7346 | 769 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
As of the census of 2000 The racial makeup of the village was 86.46% White, 10.47% African American.
Eye witnesses stated that as recently as the 50’s, blacks were asked to leave the carnival at sundown everywhere by whites in the town.
Walt Harrington’s book “Crossings: A White Man’s Journey Into Black America” comments on racial history in Crete on page 444. He comments local white men would approach blacks near dark and that he knew of a police officer who once said that he would follow any car with black occupants just to make sure they left town without stopping anywhere.