US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, Illinois

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US Black Heritage Project; USBH 1880 Project

Goal: To create a profile for every Black American enumerated on the 1880 US federal census in Illinois.

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Total Population of Illinois in 1880: 3,082,781

Total Black Population of Illinois in 1880: 46,368

Counties in 1880	Total Pop.	Black Pop.	Spreadsheet	Status/Checked
Adams	59,135	1,884	Illinois #3
Alexander	14,808	4,568	Illinois #4
Bond	14,776	325	Illinois #2
Boone	11,508	48	Illinois #2
Brown	13,041	59	Illinois #2
Bureau	33,172	155	Illinois #2
Calhoun	7,467	1	Illinois #1
Carroll	16,976	26	Illinois #2
Cass	14,493	6	Illinois #2
Champaign	40,863	462	Illinois #1	Done/Checked
Christian	28,227	127	Illinois #2
Clark	21,894	51	Illinois #2
Clay	16,192	84	Illinois #2
Clinton	18,714	353	Illinois #2
Coles	27,042	276	Illinois #2
Cook	607,524	6,945	Illinois #4
Crawford	16,197	37	Illinois #2
Cumberland	13,759	2	Illinois #1
DeKalb	26,768	93	Illinois #2
De Witt	17,010	113	Illinois #1
Douglas	15,853	110	Illinois #2
DuPage	19,161	60	Illinois #1	Done/Checked
Edgar	25,499	182	Illinois #2
Edwards	8,597	83	Illinois #2
Effingham	18,920	25	Illinois #2
Fayette	23,241	40	Illinois #2
Ford	15,099	110	Illinois #2
Franklin	16,129	30	Illinois #2
Fulton	41,240	68	Illinois #2
Gallatin	12,861	675	Illinois #3
Greene	23,010	96	Illinois #2
Grundy	16,732	128	Illinois #2
Hamilton	16,712	43	Illinois#1
Hancock	35,337	162	Illinois #2
Hardin	6,024	164	Illinois #2
Henderson	10,722	12	Illinois #2
Henry	36,597	132	Illinois #2
Iroquois	35,451	247	Illinois #2
Jackson	22,505	1,528	Illinois #3
Jasper	14,515	48	Illinois #2
Jefferson	20,686	96	Illinois #2
Jersey	15,542	331	Illinois #2
Jo Daviess	27,528	56	Illinois #2
Johnson	13,078	133	Illinois #2
Kane	44,939	550	Illinois #2
Kankakee	25,047	76	Illinois #2
Kendall	13,083	75	Illinois #2
Knox	38,344	972	Illinois #3
Lake	21,296	78	Illinois #2
La Salle	70,403	93	Illinois #2
Lawrence	18,663	319	Illinois #2	Done
Lee	27,491	64	Illinois #2
Livingston	38,450	300	Illinois #2
Logan	25,037	356	Illinois #2
McDonough	27,970	144	Illinois #2
McHenry	24,908	51	Illinois #2
McLean	60,100	687	Illinois #3
Macon	30,665	352	Illinois #2
Macoupin	37,692	434	Illinois #2
Madison	50,126	2,701	Illinois #4
Marion	23,686	302	Illinois #2
Marshall	15,055	37	Illinois #1	Done/Checked
Mason	16,242	24	Illinois #2
Massac	10,443	1,703	Illinois #3
Menard	13,024	54	Illinois #2
Mercer	19,502	37	Illinois #2
Monroe	13,682	56	Illinois #2
Montgomery	28,078	167	Illinois #2
Morgan	31,514	935	Illinois #3
Moultrie	13,699	20	Illinois #2
Ogle	29,937	107	Illinois #2	Done/Checked
Peoria	55,355	512	Illinois #2
Perry	16,007	767	Illinois #3
Piatt	15,583	33	Illinois #2
Pike	33,751	301	Illinois #2
Pope	13,256	570	Illinois #2
Pulaski	9,507	3,270	Illinois #4
Putnam	5,554	44	Illinois #1	Done/Checked
Randolph	25,690	1,298	Illinois #3
Richland	15,545	36	Illinois #2
Rock Island	38,302	534	Illinois #2
St. Clair	61,806	2,577	Illinois #3
Saline	15,940	583	Illinois #2
Sangamon	52,894	1,822	Illinois #3
Schuyler	16,249	89	Illinois #2
Scott	10,741	31	Illinois #2
Shelby	30,270	77	Illinois #2
Stark	11,207	4	Illinois #1	Done/Checked
Stephenson	31,963	23	Illinois #1
Tazewell	29,666	87	Illinois #2
Union	18,102	272	Illinois #2
Vermilion	41,588	202	Illinois #2
Wabash	9,945	57	Illinois #2
Warren	22,933	290	Illinois #2
Washington	21,112	212	Illinois #2
Wayne	21,291	16	Illinois #2
White	23,087	534	Illinois #2
Whiteside	30,885	78	Illinois #2
Will	53,422	703	Illinois #1
Williamson	19,324	253	Illinois #2
Winnebago	30,505	140	Illinois #2
Woodford	21,620	85	Illinois #2

Thank you to our spreadsheet creation helpers for Illinois

• Donna Baumann
• M Cole

Sources

• "1880 Census: Volume 1. Statistics of the Population of the United States;" Table V: Population, by Race and by Counties: 1880, 1870, 1860; page 387-388, Illinois; image copy, United States Census Bureau, https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-01-population/1880_v1-13.pdf : accessed 25 Jan 2024.