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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 5599 | 1 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 4105 | 1 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 3457 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 3645 | 1 | ||||||
| 2000 | 3412 | 3363 | 11 | 3 | ||||
| 2010 | 3319 | 5* | 0 | |||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A man saw “a sign on the edge of Gillespie stating there were to be no ‘niggers’ in the town. The sign was said to be there in the late 1950s or early 1960s. He also said even after the sign was removed, it was still an unwritten rule that black people entering this town would not be tolerated, day or night.
All of the African Americans in this year were children/ probably adopted by white families.