slumlordthanatos , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I lived in Carbondale for a bit, which is a really neat college town. It’s home to Southern Illinois University, one of the wildest party schools in the later part of the 20th century (to the point where city officials banned Halloween celebrations because they were getting out of hand), and it seemed to me like a tolerant, cosmopolitan town in south Illinois.

But then you drive a few miles south, and you get to Anna, one of the most infamous “sundown towns” in America.