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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 0
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1990 | 1028 | |||||||
| 2000 | 1314 | 1301 | 4 | |||||
| 2010 | 1466 | 6 | ||||||
| 2020 | 1365 | 8 | 11 | 33 | 10 | 22 |
Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to a Philo resident, the Mayor would run blacks out of town on what she referred to as the “sundown law.” She stated that this was happening as late as the 1970’s.