Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- W. Chicago
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 1050 | 0 | ||||||
| 1900 | 1728 | 0 | ||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 4595 | 5 | ||||||
| 1930 | 14055 | 13 | ||||||
| 1940 | 15458 | 8 | ||||||
| 1950 | 21273 | 16 | ||||||
| 1960 | 36991 | 18 | ||||||
| 1970 | 50547 | 170 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 42029 | 40307 | 175 | |||||
| 2000 | 42762 | 400 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
In DuPage County. Possible entire county was sundown.
Elmhurst is home to Elmhurst College. A former student recalled, “When I attended Elmhurst College in that county the school was allowed to have four ‘negro’ students, but they had to be members of the school’s sponsoring church denomination. It wasn’t the law that I know of, but it was a firm ‘understanding.’ Happily things have changed a great deal.”
He further explained that while he was a student there between 1951 & 1955 he learned from one of the few black students that “there was an agreed upon cap on the number of blacks allowed on campus. We only had four in a school of 700 as I remember it.” A Dean told him “‘yes’ there was an understanding that there would be a set number allowed. He indicated that the agreement was made with community leaders.”