Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- N. Chicago
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Sign?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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| 2000 | 2487 | 4 | 0 | |||||
| 2010 | 2513 | 7 | 0 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In 1964, Lilian Calhoun, Chicago Defender reporter and columnist, and her husband, were the first African Americans to purchase a home in Kenilworth, arguably the area’s most exclusive suburb. According to Lilian, a cross was burned in their yard once, but it did not deter her from living there for at least a decade.
According to a resident of Illinois, “It’s my understanding that Jews also were excluded from Kenilworth. In the 1960’s my mother told me that there were a few but we still don’t build synagogues there. And actually, there still are no synagogues there in 2010.”