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 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. Expose ...

Loewen, a sociologist and the author of “Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism” was speaking Tuesday at a virtual forum hosted by ProPublica Illinois exploring the history and ...

I was in Springfield this week to talk about my reporting in Anna, Illinois, and sundown towns like Anna. My talk was held at the Springfield public library — which, I must point out ...

The sun sets over a field outside of Anna, Illinois ... had no way of knowing where the sundown towns were located because there wasn’t a map until James Loewen researched and wrote the ...

But one region — the Midwest — has the highest concentration, according to historical records.. A heat map representation of the prevalence of sundown towns in each state.

In his 2005 book, "Sundown ... of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sociologist Rene Pulfer noted that race relations in Pekin remained tense in the 1980s, describing public, social and work places ...

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.

I found 472 sundown towns in Illinois alone," and he asserted that there were about 10,000 such towns across the country, "which makes it actually a majority of all towns in the United States ...

Last week, we hosted an online discussion many of you may have joined about the Black Lives Matter movements in small towns, and specifically in Anna, Illinois, a sundown town I’ve reported on.

The sun sets over a field outside of Anna, Illinois ... had no way of knowing where the sundown towns were located because there wasn’t a map until James Loewen researched and wrote the ...