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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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| 1990 | 53,223 | 48,976 | 325 | 73 | ||||
| 2000 | 58,720 | 49,586 | 594 | 196 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
The KKK was active in Des Plaines, with an apparent sundown policy as well. There was a KKK rally in the 1920’s.
A former resident remarked that during the 1920’s, KKK marches took place and blacks were ticketed unfairly until the early 1980’s.