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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | ||||||||
| 1940 | 1271 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1316 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1432 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 1866 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | 2328 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990 | 2481 | 2459 | 2 | |||||
| 2000 | 2610 | 2602 | 9 | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A local Priest said, “They all seemed to have the same kind of law that you could come into town but couldn’t stay after 5pm” (2004)