Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- St. Louis
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1920
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | 12,982 | 69 | ||||||
| 1880 | 13,582 | 56 | ||||||
| 1890 | 12,938 | 53 | ||||||
| 1900 | 13,847 | 23 | ||||||
| 1910 | 13,508 | 13 | ||||||
| 1920 | 12,830 | 18 | ||||||
| 1930 | 12,369 | 12,366 | 3 | |||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 18,831 | 4 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 27,619 | 14 | 2 | |||||
| 2010 | 32,957 | 69 | 6 | |||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Private Bad Behavior
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A resident of Columbia said that there was an unofficial sundown policy county-wide. She also heard that there was a sign near Waterloo, the county seat, telling blacks to be out of the county by sundown. email; March 2013