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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 2000 | 1439 | 1412 | 8 | |||||
| 2010 | 1476 | 3 | 1 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“There was a sort of unwritten rule (and perhaps an oral tradition) that black people weren’t allowed to live in Williamsville. If they were ever in town they were supposed to leave by dusk. In fact, her mom and dad went to a house auction in Williamsville (she didn’t say what year, but it would have been between 1951 and 1969 since my mom graduated in 1969). After they returned from the auction she remembers them telling her someone from town would by the house just to make sure a black family didn’t buy it and move to town.” -Contact recalling what her mother, a long time resident of the town, remembered about life in Williamsville, email, March 2012