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the demographics changed and family life in the village declined. In 1915, two rival gangs attempting to declare themselves police chief had a shootout in front of a grocery store, resulting in three deaths. In 1933, the police chief ran an extortion ring and dissolved the city council at gunpoint, causing the county board of supervisors to replace the entire police force.
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An early interracial community, it suffered from structural discrimination; transport lines were routed to bypass and isolate it rather than connecting it, and economic development projects passed over it, and indeed were set up in competition to it. In 2015, the county's state attorney
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stations to aid slaves escaping to freedom in Canada. William Paul Quinn and
Priscilla Baltimore visited slaves in neighboring towns to inform them of the Underground Railroad's existence, and housed slaves in the churches before sending them to the next station. At one point, Quinn was captured by
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platted the land and created an unincorporated nearly all-black town. Thomas Osburn was one of them, and he is documented as having lived in the area for decades. Priscilla
Baltimore built a house on his former land, which she occupied from 1851 to 1872. In the 1840s and 1850s, the African-American
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Black autonomy did not automatically yield unity in the village. Tensions ran high with class and color conflicts by the early decades of the twentieth century, and evidence of political corruption. In addition, with the growth in number of young, single male workers, attracted to industrial jobs,
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living together, 39.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.8% were non-families. 36.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 25.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.34.
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Since the turn of the 21st century, residents have rallied around new work related to documentation of the village's rich historical past. They have worked to collect oral histories and personal accounts of the village. In 2007, residents founded the
Historical Society Of Brooklyn, Illinois. The
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On July 8, 1873, Brooklyn was incorporated. By 1880, its population included 371 African-American and 203 European-American residents. In the late 19th century, its residents joined in taking new industrial jobs, commuting to those in East St. Louis and nearby areas. "Blacks who migrated to what
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of 2000, there were 676 people, 267 households, and 166 families residing in the village. The population density was 801.9 inhabitants per square mile (309.6/km). There were 346 housing units at an average density of 410.5 per square mile (158.5/km). The racial makeup of the village was 0.59%
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Surveys in 2008 revealed that "the archaeological record of
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working on a 21st-century project in
Brooklyn, has found written evidence that Baltimore still lived in St. Louis in the 1830s; the first documentation of her associated with Brooklyn is from 1839. She may have been traveling between these locations for a time.
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in St. Louis. In
September 2010, the Brooklyn Historical Society installed a gravestone in her honor at the cemetery. In addition, ISAS will assist the village in surveying the Brooklyn cemetery to detect gravesites and try to document the history.
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was the first of that newly formed, independent black denomination to be built west of the
Appalachian Mountains, as well as the first in Illinois. The AME Church was founded as a denomination by free blacks in Philadelphia and its region in 1816.
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In 1940, it was reported that the town had fewer than ten white inhabitants, but the most prosperous businesses in the town were all white-owned. Furthermore, the local school had declined in quality. Black residents blamed a sense of fatalism.
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Group of earthworks. By the end of the 2007 field season, the team had excavated 7,000 prehistoric features, making this one of the largest sites ever excavated in the USA. Most of these features are associated with the Late
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provide a primary source of revenue in its limited economy. In June 2007, it was reported that three-quarters of
Brooklyn's revenue of $ 380,000 comes through sales tax and a $ 30,000 licensing fee from the adult clubs.
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became known as Brooklyn were attracted to the possibilities of working in an industrialized settlement that would enjoy race autonomy and self-determinism." In 1886, the
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for the village was $ 7,944. About 28.2% of families and 48.5% of the population were below the
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Véronique LaCapra, "Archaeologists Dig For Clues To African-American History In Brooklyn, Ill."
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America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915
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1284:, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
1955:"The Best St. Louis Blues Musicians of All Time"
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1589:America's First Black Town
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