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?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 1746 | |||||||
| 2000 | 1669 | 1650 | 3 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
“It was a bunch of Negroes [killed in #1 mine]. And they sealed them off (1948). They posted in all different languages, ‘Don’t go in this area.’ And put up chain link fences.” “When that happened, they run the Negroes out of Zeigler.” When they came to town as carnival workers, they couldn’t spend the night. (According to a local resident, 2002)