Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- N. Chicago
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1890 | ||||||||
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| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 1225 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | 1720 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 34995 | 14 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 53170 | 47953 | 606 | |||||
| 2000 | 56265 | 45338 | 1026 | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
Resident from the 1950s remarks “I can remember overhearing my parents and others mention that black folks not only couldn’t live in town, but had to be out of Mt.Prospect by sundown.”