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?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 8664 | |||||||
| 2000 | 8631 | 8430 | 41 | |||||
| 2010 | 9115 | 60 | 14 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
Olney is said to be an all-white town by former resident radio station host in Champaign. Now it has a junior college that has black basketball players, but they don’t really live there.
In 2006, Olney had its first black candidate for State Representative. Brandt Patterson (D) received 30% of the vote, the same percentage the white Democratic candidate received in 2008)