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?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Sign?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 4354 | |||||||
| 2000 | 4326 | 4269 | 13 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
2/2008 email
I am from Sullivan, IL. I grew up hearing other kids tell about the sundown rule. When Guy Little, Jr. started a summer stock theater in Sullivan, out of town actors arrived. As I recall the first black actors stayed at Dr. McLAughlin’s house. He was highly respected and everyone new that no harm would come to a guest at his home. One of the Black actors had role in Music Man. But he appeared in “white face.”
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There are a lot of residents who state that Sullivan was indeed sundown, if not by ordinance than by attitude.