PEKIN – For years, some Illinois towns had the reputation of being a "sundown town," a city where it wasn't safe for Black people to be after dark.While that's largely gone by the wayside, the ...

The map shows that there isn’t one state in America without suspicion of a sundown town. Regarding Black towns and townships, the 10 listed are Pembroke and Brooklyn, Illinois.

PEKIN – For years, some Illinois towns had the reputation of being a "sundown town," a city where it wasn't safe for Black people to be after dark. While that's largely gone by the wayside, the ...

There are hundreds of these communities in Illinois. As the book “Sundown Towns,” by James W. Loewen, explains, the phrase is derived from “the signs that many of [these places] ...

The author of a well-known book exposing sundown towns said these communities need to take three steps: acknowledge their racist past, apologize for it and take concrete steps to change.

Once known as a 'sundown town' and KKK stronghold, Pekin tries to move past racist history In the past, Pekin was Ku Klux Klan headquarters for an area encompassing more than 40 Illinois counties.

Loewen said that as he researched towns with such histories, "to my astonishment, I found 472 sundown towns in Illinois alone," and he asserted that there were about 10,000 such towns across the ...

The sun sets over a field outside of Anna, Illinois. "Sundown towns" like Anna were places where Black people were allowed in during the day to work or shop but had to be gone by nightfall. Today ...

Fifty years ago, 71% of Illinois towns with a population of at least 1,000 had no minority residents. Everyone living there was white. In these 475 towns, spread across the state, only Caucasians ...

He says in his research, he was surprised to find that there were more than 500 sundown towns in Illinois, and hundreds more in Michigan and pretty much everywhere but the traditional south.

The sun sets over a field outside of Anna, Illinois. "Sundown towns" like Anna were places where Black people were allowed in during the day to work or shop but had to be gone by nightfall. Today ...

Once known as a 'sundown town' and KKK stronghold, Pekin tries to move past racist history In the past, Pekin was Ku Klux Klan headquarters for an area encompassing more than 40 Illinois counties.