Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- St. Louis
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 1990 | 5511 | 5116 | 308 | |||||
| 2000 | 5659 | 5191 | 237 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Zoning
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A local resident claimed the town had a sign in 1958.
Black Air Force officers were forced to live in nearby St. Louis.
A recent race-based hate crime, reported by CBS St. Louis: BELLEVILLE Il. (KMOX) â%u20AC%u201C A Belleville man could get up to three years in prison after being convicted on a Hate Crime. It took the St. Clair County jury only 12 minutes to convict 20 year old Cory Houghlan. Prosecutors produced witnesses at his trial that said they saw Houghlan for no apparent reason approach an African American man on the parking lot of the Handee Mart in Mascoutah yelling racial slurs and strike him on the face. The incident occurred in August of 2009.