Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- S. Chicago
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 1990 | 2,059 | 2,041 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2000 | 3,330 | 3,237 | 7 | 3 | ||||
| 2010 | 7051 | 79 | 22 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to a former resident of Manhattan, “When I lived there, I was told that there used to be signs at the edges of town to the effect of, “Don’t let the sun go down…” I can offer no documentation or other substantiation other than this simple recollection of hearsay, but I did hear that from multiple sources.”