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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 0
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1970 | 2865 | 1 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 3458 | 6 | ||||||
| 2000 | 6414 | 6272 | 17 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
It was reported that there was a sundown sign scrawled on an I57 overpass in 1999, just north of Kankakee.
According to a former resident of Bourbonnais, IL. who grew up in the town between 1953-1961, “during that time at least one of these towns let it be known that they had abandoned their racist restrictions (somehow this was officially announced, although perhaps not printed anywhere). This may have been Manteno.”