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Residents in Evanston, Illinois, expressed their frustration Thursday over the slow pace of the city s historic reparations program, claiming officials would rather "showboat" and mug for the media than address deep flaws in the system that has so far seen seven people die before getting their money.
Rose Cannon said she still remembers the excitement she felt at an early Evanston town hall on reparations in December 2019. A few weeks prior, the city had become the first in the country to pass a reparations resolution, which aimed to address the history of opportunity and wealth disparities affecting Black residents. More than.
Most conversations about reparations center on compensating descendants of enslaved people. Evanston focused its effort on repairing damage caused by housing discrimination.