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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1990 | 2126 | |||||||
| 2000 | 2150 | 2124 | 0 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A local gas station worker said blacks traveling from St. Louis to Chicago routinely carried “an extra ten-gallon tank of gas in their trunk, because no one would sell them gas en route.” Certainly no one would in Mt. Olive.
According to a student at the time (late 1950s), the city council had to meet to approve a bending of the sundown ordinance to allow Lincoln HS from E. St. L. to play football at night in Mt. Olive. (Taken in 2005)