Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racism
James W. Loewen
Ted Hipple, who lived in Park Forest at the time, described the process: Blacks were moving from Chicago to the suburbs, and some looked at housing in Park Forest. Leo [Jacobson] and others in the government, to avoid any possible clustering of the black families and any resulting blockbusting consequences, were instrumental in allocating them to various parts of town, well separated from each other, with prior notification of the neighbors that a black family would be moving in.