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?
- Unlikely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 980 | 201 | ||||||
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| 1960 | 721 | 89 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 748 | 587 | 157 | |||||
| 2000 | 724 | 541 | 171 | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“In Elco and Tamms, ‘anti negroe [sic] convictions of neighbors’ prevented efforts by the sheriff to find out who was dynamiting Negro homes.” Reference: Cairo Bulletin, March 7, 1924, p.1.
Elco and Tamms are between Anna and Cairo