Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 17529 | 17015 | 49 | |||||
| 1900 | 17706 | 17660 | 44 | |||||
| 1910 | 16376 | 16361 | 12 | |||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 15588 | 15579 | 9 | |||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 15509 | 15493 | 3 | |||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 16365 | 16173 | 39 | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A frequent visitor to the Mansfield remembers hearing conversations like, “”the sun doesn’t set on a black ass in Piatt County” about twenty years ago. Email; October 2012.
Many residents in Monticello, the county seat, confirmed that the town was indeed sundown, and there were window signs up that were intended more to “ease whites.”
All black residents in the county in 1930 lived in Monticello. They all worked as laundresses or at the hotel (those at the hotel probably lived at the hotel, not in a residential area)