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?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 2000 | 1793 | 1771 | 2 | |||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to a source who lived up the river from Warsaw, in Hamilton, “there was supposedly an ordinance on the books aimed at prohibiting blacks from being on the streets or in town after sundown.”
Warsaw was all-white in 1930.