Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1940's
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | 1548 | 1534 | 0 | |||||
| 1940 | 1508 | 1508 | 0 | |||||
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| 1970 | 1005 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | 1069 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990 | 1017 | 1008 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 2000 | 1026 | 1020 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Other
- Unknown
Comments
“I am from Princeton, IL which is a few miles east of Wyanet. My family has been in this region of the state for generations. At least a few times, I have heard a story about how the citizens of Wyanet rioted and threw the Jehovah’s Witnesses out of the town. I think this may have happened in the ’40s.”
-Email from Princeton, IL resident