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?
- Always Biracial
- Was there an ordinance?
- No
- Sign?
- No
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 1116 | 1012 | 16 | 144 | ||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
Cobden was willing to hire blacks during the Civil War.
“By the 20th century only one small rural black community, south of Makanda at Toppington, [N of Cobden] and a larger African American community in and close to Cobden (with its own school and church), existed in the county. By the 1950s all African American schools had too few pupils to be sustained, and the remaining black students went to the Cobden school.”