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When I began this research, I expected to find about 10 sundown towns in Illinois (my home state) and perhaps 50 across the country. Instead, I have found more than 440 in Illinois and thousands across the United States. This is their story; it is the fir
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In the US, such exclusionary communities are sometimes called "sundown towns" because of posted signs at their city limits reading, typically, "Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You In ___."
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