Anna, Illinois Anna, Illinois City of Anna The Anna State Asylum, assembled in 1869 in the Kirkbride Plan was a rambling four-story structure, part of which was finished in separate incidents, but most of which is still standing as the central complex to the C.L.

The Anna State Asylum, assembled in 1869 in the Kirkbride Plan was a rambling four-story structure, part of which was finished in separate incidents, but most of which is still standing as the central complex to the C.L.

Official seal of Anna, Illinois Anna, Illinois is positioned in Illinois Anna, Illinois - Anna, Illinois State Illinois Anna is a town/city in Union County, Illinois.

Located in Southern Illinois, the populace was 4,442 at the 2010 United States Census, a diminish from 5,135 in 2000.

Anna is famous for the Anna State Mental Hospital or the Choate Mental Health Care Center.

Anna was platted on March 3, 1854, titled for the wife of the town's founder. The town/city was incorporated on February 16, 1865. Anna was historically a sundown town, in which African Americans were excluded from living in the town's limits.

In 1909, a mob of angry white people drove out Anna's black families following the lynching in a close-by town of a black man accused of raping a white woman. According to historian James W.

Loewen, a common adage in the town was that its name of "Anna" was actually an acronym, standing for "Ain't No Niggers Allowed". According to the 2010 census, Anna has a total region of 3.519 square miles (9.11 km2), of which 3.5 sq mi (9.06 km2) (or 99.46%) is territory and 0.019 sq mi (0.05 km2) (or 0.54%) is water. There were 1,893 homeholds out of which 24.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 42.6% were married couples living together, 14.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present and 42.0% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.7% aged 19 and younger, 7.0% from 20 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 24.5% from 45 to 64, and 23.0% who were 65 years of age or older.

Delos Brown, pinch hitter for the Chicago White Sox, born in Anna 100 Years of Progress: The Centennial History of Anna, Illinois.

Anna, Ill: Anna Centennial Committee.

Illinois Regional Archives Depository System.

Illinois State Archives.

Illinois Secretary of State.

Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: City of Anna "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Enumeration of Population and Housing".

"United States Enumeration Bureau".

History of Anna State Hospital Municipalities and communities of Union County, Illinois, United States

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Anna, Illinois - 1854 establishments in Illinois - Cities in Illinois - Populated places established in 1854 - Cities in Union County, Illinois