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?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 0
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 799 | 791 | 0 | |||||
| 2000 | 896 | 889 | 1 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
As of the census of 2000, The racial makeup of the village was 99.22% White, 0.11% African American, and 0.67% from two or more races.
In Sept. 2003, The Associated Press reported that a Chicago School’s football team cancelled their game against Southern Highschool for racial displays.
Fans of Southern Highschool’s football team, the “Southern Rebels” in Stronghurst, wave Confederate flags during games and a student traditionally leads the team on the field waving the stars and bars banner. The team’s mascot is dressed as a colonel in the Confederate army. Every time they score a touchdown, they run a Confederate flag across the field.
A former resident stated: “I can say, the information about the school and the football team was true, although the school has since consolidated with another school and the “Southern Rebels” are no longer. Incidentally, the school they consolidated with was formerly known as “Union High School” and they were the “Yankees.”