Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- 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
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | 23 | |||||||
| 1880 | 48 | |||||||
| 1890 | 18188 | 18084 | 104 | |||||
| 1900 | 20160 | 20076 | 84 | |||||
| 1910 | 18157 | 18086 | 69 | |||||
| 1920 | 16064 | 16138 | 26 | |||||
| 1930 | 12809 | 22 | ||||||
| 1940 | 15 | |||||||
| 1950 | 5 | |||||||
| 1960 | 5 | |||||||
| 1970 | 10741 | 10731 | 0 | |||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 10117 | 10031 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| 2010 | 9689 | 9564 | 11 | |||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“When it comes to African Americans, there was a great deal of outspoken racism even though there was no one there on the receiving end of the hate. My father, raised in Jasper County in the 1930s and 40s, told me that before his time there had been an Af