Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- W. Chicago
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 473 | |||||||
| 1900 | 793 | |||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 2851 | 23 | ||||||
| 1930 | 7680 | 6 | ||||||
| 1940 | 8055 | 39 | ||||||
| 1950 | 9524 | 33 | ||||||
| 1960 | 15972 | 61 | ||||||
| 1970 | 21909 | 77 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 24944 | 23450 | 497 | |||||
| 2000 | 26999 | 24163 | 575 | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
A man remarked that his wife felt white supremacy existed on some level in the town. She described family life there as having fighting, violence, and incest. People in the town called her a liar, because such things don’t happen in Glen Ellyn, only among “minorities.”