and the median income for a family was $30,994. Males had a median income of $24,375 versus $21,108 for females. The per capita income for the village was $7,944. About 28.2% of families and 48.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 33.5% of those under age 18 and 74.0% of those age 65 or over. Education Brooklyn Unit School District 188 operates public schools. Notable people Hamiet Bluiett, saxophonist (1940–2018) Prince Joe Henry, Negro league baseball player Albert King, blues guitarist (1923–1992) Bibliography Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita (2000). America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002. "Examining Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of Illinois," in The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post-Emancipation Life, edited by Jodi Barnes, pp. 173–189, University of South Carolina Press (2011). Norman Dwight Harris, The History of Negro Servitude In Illinois, and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864 (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1904) Glennette Tilley Turner, The Underground Railroad in Illinois (Glen Ellyn, Illinois: Newman Educational Publishing, 2001) References External links "Brooklyn, Illinois Historical and Archeological Project", University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Web portal "Historical Society of Brooklyn, Illinois" Official Website Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915, University of Illinois Press Populated places established in 1873 Villages in St. Clair County, Illinois Villages in Illinois Illinois populated places on the Mississippi River Populated places on the Underground Railroad 1837 establishments in Illinois Populated places established by African Americans