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?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 2240 | 2235 | 0 | |||||
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| 2000 | 15,198 | 14,874 | 20 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Morton is an overwhelmingly white town. “Nigger” used as “high-fivin'” other whites %u2014 positively.
A Morton apartment manager told a black applicant on the phone, “You’ll enjoy living here because it’s all-white.”
“My Dad had an African American friend that he worked with. He would bring him to our house for dinner, but this good man would have to be sure to be out of Tazewell County and back across the bridge to Peoria before sundown.” -Longtime resident of Morton, email, 4/2012