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?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Sign?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1990 | 996 | |||||||
| 2000 | 996 | 987 | 2 | |||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
There have been many reports of a sundown sign, though no hard evidence of one. There is a Black cemetery, with a sign that says NEGRO CEMETERY 1840-1876, underneath the writing someone had sprayed painted a “KKK” and a “666” onto the graveyard marker.