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?
- 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 | 5996 | 5840 | 13 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
HS team is “Gray Ghosts,” logo for which looks like a Klan figure. Others claim that the name is in reference to a Confederate General-turned-KKK grand wizard whose nickname was Grey Ghost.
In 1952 or 3 the Harlem Globetrotters came to play an exhibition game in our high school gym. We were all crazy about the Globetrotters, at the height of their fame then, and the citizens of Chillicothe filled the gym. Only thing is, the Globetrotters couldn’t stay the night; had to move on before dark.
Up until about the late 80s or early 90s, there was a city ordnance of some sort which prohibited blacks from being in town before sunup and after sundown.