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?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 1990 | 508 | |||||||
| 2000 | 520 | 493 | 20 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Other
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“We were working late, and” someone said “You gotta be outta town by 6,” referring to the blacks on the crew, from Carlyle. I wasn’t quite clear as to whether my informant thought the foreman was kidding. Clearly, he said it referred to a rule, but he didn’t think it was going to be enforced that evening, it was more like a quip by then.
“They all seemed to have the same kind of law: that you could come to town but couldn’t stay past 5PM.” (Local resident, 2004)