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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1990 | 1184 | |||||||
| 2000 | 1162 | 1154 | 1 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Workers on the North Western Railroad needed a security escort from the train to the motel because, “the townspeople didn’t want blacks in their town.” (Engineer on the project, 1974)