Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Unlikely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | 3184 | 27 | ||||||
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| 1950 | 3564 | 4 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 4244 | 2 | ||||||
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| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 4211 | 9 | 3 | |||||
| 2010 | 4576 | 245* | 0 | |||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
One resident managed a business in Pittsfield for several years. He recalled one black delivery man coming into the business, and a patron telling the delivery man he had to be out of town by sundown. The store manager believed the patron was a member of the city council. This was around 2003.
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The Pittsfield Work Camp is located in the town. This probably explains almost the entire black population in the town.
*All Black residents in the town are male, between the ages of 18 and 61 (with the exception of one male under the age of 10, perhaps an adoption).