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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- 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 | |
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| 1990 | 2814 | |||||||
| 2000 | 2629 | 2587 | 5 | |||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
I distinctly remember that the adults in my life spoke of the fact that no black persons (a less neutral noun was usually employed) were allowed to remain in White Hall overnight. (Taken from a resident who lived there during the 1950s)